More than a year into the novel coronavirus pandemic, we aren t certain how many Ohio nursing home workers died of COVID-19.
COVID-19 made working in a nursing home one of the deadliest jobs in America, according to an analysis of federal data by Scientific American magazine. Nursing home staffers had a higher death rate in 2020 than logging workers did in 2019, Scientific American found. The only group that had a higher death rate in 2019 were fishers.
“It just leaves me speechless,” said Meghan Finegan, assistant communications director for Service Employees International Union, which represents around two million employees across multiple industries, including nursing homes.
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Just Half of Long-Term Caretakers Are Vaccinated Against COVID
Marie Branham, resident director at Atria Springdale in Louisville, Kentucky, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 21. She was one of the first staff members at the long-term care facility to be vaccinated.
Atria Senior Living
FORT WORTH, Texas When Alice Hakata first heard her colleagues at the Midlothian Healthcare Center debating whether they were going to take a COVID-19 vaccine, she remembers joking with them, “Well, that just makes the line in front of me shorter.”
The 59-year-old physical therapist got her first shot in late January at a mass vaccination site in Fort Worth. As she waited for her second dose, she continued hearing staff members at the skilled nursing facility, located 25 miles south of Dallas, sharing their fears about the vaccines.