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Nursing home residents will start getting vaccinations this week and Dr Fauci predicts healthy Americans with no underlying conditions could get shots as early as March
In a briefing on Monday, General Gustave Perna said nursing home residents will begin being vaccinated in some states this week
He said it is up to individual states to decide when to inoculate elderly Americans and that more than 1,100 facilities will start on December 21
It comes as Dr Anthony Fauci said healthy U.S. adults will likely receive vaccines as early as March or April 2021
Fauci added that, if enough people are immunized by late, summer, the U.S. could achieve the umbrella of herd immunity
AP
Dec 14, 2020 9:40 PM ET
Being first has come with persistent fears that the places hit hardest in the pandemic accounting for nearly 40% of the nation’s death toll could be put at risk again by vaccines sped into development in months rather than years. Some who live and work in homes question if enough testing was done on the elderly, if enough is known of side effects and if the shots could do more harm than good.
“You go get that first and let me know how you feel,” said Denise Schwartz, whose 84-year-old mother lives at an assisted living facility in East Northport, New York, and plans to decline the vaccine. “Obviously it would be horrible for her to get COVID, but is it totally safe for someone who’s elderly and in fragile health?”…
Nursing home staff, residents fear vaccine, balk at shots By BERNARD CONDON and MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press
Published: December 14, 2020, 7:19pm
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After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots.
Being first has come with persistent fears that the places hit hardest in the pandemic accounting for nearly 40 percent of the nation’s death toll could be put at risk again by vaccines sped into development in months rather than years. Some who live and work in homes question if enough testing was done on the elderly, if enough is known of side effects and if the sh
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