Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a way to protect her health, said Lopes, a Harwich resident.
“I got it because I have a lot of underlying conditions and work in a nursing home. I don’t want to get sick.”
Lopes, who works at South Dennis Healthcare, formerly known as Eagle Pond, knows that not all employees feel the same as she does about the vaccine.
“They’re afraid because they’re feeling like it might have long-term effects,” she said.
Although nursing home employees were in the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination for most states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently estimated that just about 40% of nursing home employees opted to get the vaccine.
Country Gazette
WRENTHAM There has been a lot of disagreement in recent months about the future of the town s Eagle Dam an aged structure next to Rte. 140 on the northwest side of town and it won t be settled any time soon.
At a virtual meeting held Tuesday to talk about the dam and work that has been done so far to determine the feasibility of possibly removing it, participants were told the discussion is only just starting and a final decision which will involve community input is more likely years, rather than months, away. We re in the very, very preliminary stages as a community, DPW Director Mike Lavin reassured those who signed on for the meeting.