Roughly 30% of Colorado s long-term care employees remain unvaccinated
Colorado isn t requiring staff in residential care facilities to get vaccinated, but all unvaccinated staff must be tested daily. Author: Kelly Reinke (9NEWS) Updated: 10:43 PM MDT August 2, 2021
DENVER Vaccines are no longer a recommendation for thousands of workers in Colorado – Kaiser Pemanente, the state s largest nonprofit health care system, will require all 200,000 employees nationwide to get the vaccine.
So will the city of Denver.
Denver s order covers 10,000 city employees, including workers in high-risk settings like nursing homes. Other private-sector workers required to get vaccinated by Sept. 30 include home health care providers and employees in hospitals and clinical settings.
A “breakthrough case” is when a fully vaccinated person gets the virus after vaccination – some who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 could still test positive.