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After 110K virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears

After 110K virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears
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After 110,000 virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears – HotAir

AP Dec 14, 2020 9:40 PM ET Being first has come with persistent fears that the places hit hardest in the pandemic accounting for nearly 40% of the nation’s death toll could be put at risk again by vaccines sped into development in months rather than years. Some who live and work in homes question if enough testing was done on the elderly, if enough is known of side effects and if the shots could do more harm than good. “You go get that first and let me know how you feel,” said Denise Schwartz, whose 84-year-old mother lives at an assisted living facility in East Northport, New York, and plans to decline the vaccine. “Obviously it would be horrible for her to get COVID, but is it totally safe for someone who’s elderly and in fragile health?”…

Nursing home staff, residents fear vaccine, balk at shots

Nursing home staff, residents fear vaccine, balk at shots By BERNARD CONDON and MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Published: December 14, 2020, 7:19pm Share: 9 Photos Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool) Photo Gallery After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots. Being first has come with persistent fears that the places hit hardest in the pandemic accounting for nearly 40 percent of the nation’s death toll could be put at risk again by vaccines sped into development in months rather than years. Some who live and work in homes question if enough testing was done on the elderly, if enough is known of side effects and if the sh

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