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âThere are a lot of people who canât get to Fenway or Gilletteâ: Some residents feel overlooked in vaccine rollout Thousands who canât easily leave home struggle to get their shots By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 4:33 p.m. Email to a Friend If anyone has experience overcoming obstacles , itâs John Chappell. The 77-year-old Hanover resident, who is a paraplegic, is a former deputy commissioner of a state agency designed to help disabled people. Yet Chappell, who is now president of an advocacy group called the Disability Policy Consortium, is struggling to get a COVID-19 vaccine because he is bedbound and canât find a way to get the shot at home. ....
Stateâs deliberate approach on vaccines frustrates some seniors By Deanna Pan Globe Staff,Updated January 19, 2021, 9:46 p.m. Email to a Friend When Florida opened the floodgates to vaccinate anyone 65 and older against COVID-19, chaos and confusion followed. In some parts of the Sunshine State, older Floridians camped out overnight to secure their spots in line. A few counties turned to EventBrite, an online ticketing platform better known for coordinating book readings and comedy shows, to schedule appointments. Slots were filled in minutes, leaving tens of thousands unsure when or where theyâd receive the precious shot. Massachusetts has tried to avoid the Florida-style free-for-all with a deliberate three-phased approach to vaccinating its ....
Anxiety, relief â and confusion â as vaccines head to Massachusettsâ hard-hit senior care sites Some nursing home staff wary of vaccine program that starts Monday By Kay Lazar and Robert Weisman Globe Staff,Updated December 25, 2020, 4:37 p.m. Email to a Friend Belmont Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Belmont, where dozens of people have died of COVID-19.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/The Boston Globe No group has suffered more in the COVID-19 pandemic than residents at long-term-care facilities, accounting for more than 60 percent of coronavirus deaths in Massachusetts. And there are ominous signs infections are surging again: Nearly three-quarters of the stateâs long-term-care facilities have at least two COVID-19 cases. ....
Mary Lou Galushko gives Jeanne Peters, 95, a rehab patient at The Reservoir, a nursing facility, the first COVID-19 vaccination at the nursing home Friday, Dec. 18 in West Hartford, Conn. (Stephen Dunn/AP via pool) Anticipation. That’s what retired biology teacher Janet Brady feels about the coronavirus vaccinations expected to begin at Massachusetts long-term care facilities next week. And she says many of her neighbors at the Orchard Cove assisted living residence in Canton feel the same. We’ve all been waiting for it sort of breathlessly, she says. For Brady, the vaccine will mean liberation from months of isolation. And she hopes it will let her spend much more and better time with her husband, Tom. He has dementia and no longer speaks, so touch is especially important. ....
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