Anxiety, relief â and confusion â as vaccines head to Massachusettsâ hard-hit senior care sites
Some nursing home staff wary of vaccine program that starts Monday
By Kay Lazar and Robert Weisman Globe Staff,Updated December 25, 2020, 4:37 p.m.
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Belmont Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Belmont, where dozens of people have died of COVID-19.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/The Boston Globe
No group has suffered more in the COVID-19 pandemic than residents at long-term-care facilities, accounting for more than 60 percent of coronavirus deaths in Massachusetts. And there are ominous signs infections are surging again: Nearly three-quarters of the stateâs long-term-care facilities have at least two COVID-19 cases.