Bronx Nursing Home Residents Get Their First Shots of Vaccine
James EstrinReporting from the Bronx
Nursing Home Residents Get First Shot of Vaccine
James EstrinReporting from the Bronx
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Harriet Krakowsky, 85, had two great-grandchildren born this year but has not yet seen them in person. “My goal is to live long enough to meet them,” she told me.
On Monday, she was one of the first people in her nursing home to receive the coronavirus vaccine. →
Nursing Home Residents Get First Shot of Vaccine
James EstrinReporting from the Bronx
James Estrin/The New York Times
Beginning on Monday, the vast majority of the nation’s long term care facilities will rely on Walgreens and CVS pharmacists to vaccinate their residents and staff.
On March 11, the staff of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale New York gathered: The coronavirus had arrived. We are on our own, said President and CEO Daniel Reingold, who immediately began to secure PPE for his 1,200 staff members and as much Clorox as possible.
Without testing and proper PPE, long-term care centers nationwide were largely left to fend for themselves, particularly in the early days, and later the virus decimated residents. More than 110,000 people have died in these facilities, accounting for about 39% of total COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.
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US nursing home residents account for nearly 40% of nation s death toll
Some families and nurses fear those in fragile health could be put at risk by the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and claim it has been rushed I will not be the test dummy, said one respondent to survey by National Association of Health Care Assistants
Others are keen for light at the end of the tunnel that could allow them to rejoin children and grandchildren
In on-going study of 44,000 people, U.S. Food and Drug Administration found vaccine safe and more than 90% effective, including the elderly
Experts say 70% of the population need to receive vaccine for it to be successful
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