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Unvaccinated staff eyed in rising nursing home cases, deaths
By Jason Dearen and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar/The Associated Press 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated.
The investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of facilities in the Grand Junction, Colorado, area raises concerns among public health doctors that successes in protecting vulnerable elders with vaccines could be in peril as the more aggressive delta variant spreads across the country.
Several Colorado senior care facilities are at the center of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 investigation, and public health officials there are zeroing in on unvaccinated staff as the cause of breakthrough cases.
At an unnamed memory care facility in the Grand Junction area, 16 fully vaccinated residents were infected and four died, according to CDC information reported by The Associated Press on Thursday.
The investigation, which started in May, underscores concerns among public health officials in Colorado and beyond that the protection afforded nursing home residents and other seniors through vaccines is now at risk because of non-vaccinated individuals.
Unvaccinated staff linked to increased nursing home COVID-19 cases, deaths
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Jason Dearen
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CDC director says COVID-19 is becoming ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’
During a White House briefing, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said cases in the U.S. were up about 70% over the last week, hospital admissions were up 36% and deaths rose by 26%.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated.
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