Published Thu Jan 28 2021 00:52:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Elmwood is the type of place you might expect people would be lining up to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. But the nursing home’s operators say that only one-in-four of Elmwood’s staff has taken the shot. by Lynn Arditi
A Walgreens pharmacist had just thawed a new vial of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Elmwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Providence, when she realized she had run out of people to vaccinate.
The Pfizer-BioNTec vial had four doses leftover. If the doses weren’t used within six hours, they would expire. So on this mid-January afternoon, the nursing home’s administrator, Josh Segal, put a call out over the intercom.