Not enough CNY nursing home workers get Covid-19 shots; ‘We are in race against time’
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Christopher Bumpus, director of nursing at Bishop Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Syracuse, gets a Covid-19 vaccination on Dec. 21, 2020.
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Syracuse, N.Y. Nearly 40% of Central New York nursing home employees are still not vaccinated against Covid-19, four months after the government made them a top priority in its massive vaccine roll-out.
While 87% of Central New York nursing home residents have been vaccinated, only 64% of staffers have gotten shots, according to the state Health Department. Fewer than one-third of staffers at some homes in the region have been vaccinated.
A Virtual 104th Birthday Celebration Held for Syracuse Woman
The pandemic has made it hard for all of us: not being able to do the things we love, not being able to visit our families. With the difficult circumstances come the need to adapt to the change. In today s word, the word virtual is one that many are thankful for. That includes the family of Josephine Lovett, who turned 104 years old on Sunday.
Lovett lives in Liverpool, in the general Syracuse area, and her family realized they wouldn t be able to celebrate her birthday like they have in years past. For this year, they celebrated virtually because Onondaga Center, the nursing home Lovett lives in, currently still can’t accept visitors.
Covid-19 deaths in Onondaga County nursing homes are 34% more than reported, state says
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As of Feb. 4, the state put the death toll for Onondaga County nursing homes at 244.
But that didn’t include 82 more nursing home residents who died from the coronavirus outside of their facilities. That’s an increase of 34%.
That means a total of 326 nursing home residents in the county have died from Covid-19, the state now says.
The new numbers are the most detailed look, so far, at the true devastation that the coronavirus wrought on nursing home residents.
Statewide, 13,163 nursing home residents died related to Covid-19, according to state data compiled today by the Empire Center, a conservative think tank. Of those, 4,067, or 31%, died outside of those nursing facilities.