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Nursing homes across the country are still reporting scattered COVID-19 outbreaks and COVID-associated deaths. Those facilities are subsequently following federal and state recommendations to pause visitations, causing disappointment and frustration among family members who hoped to get back to normal once the residents were fully vaccinated.
Nursing home staff in New York must now sign a waiver if they REFUSE the vaccine, as it s revealed only half have got shots
Those living and working in New York s state nursing homes will be offered the COVID vaccine after it was revealed only 56 percent of staff in NYC have had it
It s not clear why only half of workers in the city have had the vaccine given how badly affected nursing homes were during the early stages of the pandemic
Some healthcare workers are refusing because they are afraid to take it
Anyone refusing from now on will need to sign papers acknowledging opt out
Nursing home COVID deaths have plunged 75% since December amid vaccine rollout that has seen 75% of their residents get a shot - and new cases in care homes are falling at TWICE the national rate
Between December 20 and February 14, weekly coronavirus infections among nursing home residents fell from 33,621 to 3,505, nearly 90%
Comparatively, national cases have fallen from a weekly sum of 1.507,588 to 657,032 over the same time period, a decline of 58%
As the number of COVID-19 fatalities surged to record-levels across the country, weekly deaths in nursing homes fell by 75% from 6,042 to 1,464
Experts say the upswing is likely due to vaccine distribution of vaccines with at least three-quarters of residents receiving one dose