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Kentucky s nursing homes face Biden COVID vaccine mandate for staff
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services graph, adapted by Ky. Health News
Employees providing care at Kentucky nursing homes are among the least likely in the country to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, which has killed almost 2,500 people in those nursing homes.
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The extent of the problem could be worse, because only about a third of the state s nursing homes have reported vaccination figures to theÂ
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which pays most of their costs and regulates them.
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The latest update of the database, June 17, showed that 45.09 percent of the health-care employees at reporting nursing homes had been fully vaccinated for the virus. That was ninth lowest among the states.
The Eastern Kentucky nursing home where an unvaccinated worker started an outbreak of a COVID-19 variant that infected 46 people and killed three residents has been identified as the Life Care Center in Morehead.
The March COVID-19 outbreak triggered a federal-state investigation that stressed the critical importance of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates among staff at such facilities.
Kentucky, with only 44% of nursing home workers vaccinated, trails national trends. About 50% of workers in nursing homes or assisted living report they received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to a recent Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
Kentucky public health officials initially declined to name the site of the outbreak the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used as an example of the risks of unvaccinated nursing home workers in an April 21 report.