Special Report: As of June, 73 percent of Kentucky’s 277 nursing homes were listed as going more than two years without a so-called “annual” inspection. It’s putting patients at risk.
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Coronavirus vaccines protect residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities against more contagious variants of the virus, according to aÂ
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of an outbreak of a more contagious variant in a Kentucky nursing home.
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The study reported that the first case identified was in a health-care worker at the facility who had symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, but had not been vaccinated. Only 53 percent of the health-care workers at the facility had been vaccinated, the study said, while 90% of the residents had.
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The outbreak and the study provided a test of vaccines against the more contagious variant, which had not been identified until the outbreak.