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Rate Of Second Vaccine Doses In Boston s Homeless Community Higher Than Expected
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When Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program started vaccinating adults staying in homeless shelters three weeks ago, they found excitement at each stop. Doctors, nurses and shelter staff members applauded dozens of shelter guests who got the shots.
Fifty-year-old Jeffrey Davis was one of them. The Pine Street Inn guest said he took the vaccine because COVID-19 scares him. I was afraid of dying from it, to tell you the truth, he said.
Jeffery Davis, who has been staying at Pine Street Inn for two and a half years, receives the COVID-19 vaccine in January. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
But that initial rush for the vaccines dropped off much more quickly than expected, according to registered nurse April Donahue. She s associate director of clinical operations at Health Care for the Homeless.
“The Department of Health and the state are indicating it should be soon but it can’t give a date,” he said. “They are telling us in the next couple of weeks or couple of months. It is vague.
Millennium will reach out to patients to schedule vaccination appointments when the time comes; the practice is telling patients not to call Millennium because there will not be a waiting list, he said.
“Because I don’t think that is fair,” Perez-Trepichio said.
Since it is uncertain how many doses will be shipped, the plan is for Millennium to contact patients 65 and older based on medical conditions that put them at greatest risk, he said.