Wealthy donors received vaccines through Florida nursing home Isaac Stanley-Becker, Shawn Boburg Keith Myers, chief executive of MorseLife, inside the lobby of MorseLife’s Levin Tower in 2017. (Damon Higgins/Palm Beach Post/Zumapress) The invitation to affluent Floridians arrived in writing and by telephone. “He asked me if I wanted to have a vaccine,” said Ryna Greenbaum, 89, recounting the phone message she got last week. “I’m one of the people who has given him some money.” The call, she said, had come from Keith Myers, chief executive of MorseLife Health System, a high-end nursing home and assisted-living facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., to members of the board and major donors.
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Wealthy donors reportedly received COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of staff and residents at an upscale assisted-living company in Florida
Wealthy donors reportedly received COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of staff and residents at an upscale assisted-living company in Florida
Ben GilbertJan 6, 2021, 22:18 IST
COVID-19 vaccine.Getty/Mladen Antonov
healthcare provider personally invited wealthy donors to receive COVID-19
MorseLife Health System CEO Kevin Meyers offered the
coronavirus vaccinations to board members and donors, as well as to members of the Palm Beach Country Club, the Post reported.
Florida has begun vaccinating the general population, though supplies are limited and you must be 65-year-old or older to qualify. MorseLife was not authorized to vaccinate nonresidents, according to the report.