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Two Pa. prisons have vaccinated more than 70% of inmates. An incentive program may be making a difference. lancasteronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasteronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘There’s going to be hugging:’ Lehigh Valley nursing homes readying for visitors Updated Mar 16, 2021; Warmer temperatures and COVID-19 vaccines mean Lehigh Valley nursing homes and long-term care facilities are readying to welcome visitors, slowly. Last week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said facilities should allow indoor visits at long-term care facilities “regardless of vaccination status of the resident, or the visitor.” This is after COVID-19′s deadly effects on long-term care facilities during the pandemic. AARP estimates the virus killed more than 170,000 long-term care residents and staff. In Pennsylvania, more than half of the state’s nearly 25,000 COVID-19 deaths involved long-term care residents, PennLive reported. ....
Handout from Department of Corrections Early in January, Angelo Romero sat in his cell at SCI-Smithfield and thought that there would be no way people incarcerated, like himself, would get the COVID-19 vaccine. “The inmates don’t stand a chance on being vaccinated if it’s going to cost the [Department of Corrections] money,” he wrote in a letter to Spotlight PA. But to Romero’s surprise along with prisoners’ rights advocates, public health experts, and even other inmates the opposite has happened.
Three out of the state’s 23 prisons have so far offered vaccines to inmates and staff, and the number of inmates who have gotten the vaccine at two of those facilities is upwards of 70% no small feat for a department that, on average, vaccinates just over a quarter of its population for the flu. ....
. HARRISBURG Early in January, Angelo Romero sat in his cell at SCI-Smithfield and thought there would be no way people incarcerated, like himself, would get the COVID-19 vaccine. “The inmates don’t stand a chance on being vaccinated if it’s going to cost the [Department of Corrections] money,” he wrote in a letter to Spotlight PA. But to Romero’s surprise along with prisoners’ rights advocates, public health experts, and even other inmates the opposite has happened. Three out of the state’s 23 prisons have so far offered vaccines to inmates and staff, and the number of inmates who have gotten the vaccine at two of those facilities is upwards of 70% no small feat for a department that, on average, vaccinates just over a quarter of its population for the flu. ....
Two Pa. prisons have vaccinated more than 70% of inmates. An incentive program may be the difference pennlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pennlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.