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.
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Covid vaccine arrival in CNY imminent; hospitals, nursing homes first in line
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Workers staff the Syracuse Community Health Center coronavirus screening site at 819 S. Salina St. in March. Post-Standard file photo
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Front-line hospital workers in Syracuse hospitals could get the first Covid-19 vaccinations as early as Tuesday, and nursing home residents could get their shots early next week.
Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said the first doses of the vaccine are set to arrive in Central New York any moment.
“I know it’s on its way, “McMahon said today at a briefing. “If it gets here tonight, I hope they start vaccinating and if it gets here tomorrow I hope they start vaccinating tomorrow.”
Central New York nursing home residents expect to get coronavirus vaccine in 2 weeks
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Margaret Keenan, 90, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer coronavirus, gets a shot at University Hospital, Coventry, England, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. (Jacob King/Pool via AP)AP
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Within two weeks or less, nursing home residents are expected to be among the first people in Central New York to be injected with a new vaccine for the coronavirus.
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are the targets of a massive distribution effort that will be rolled out by the federal and state governments. Senior facilities throughout the state are tentatively planning to start vaccinating residents and staff the week of Dec. 21, said Stephen Hanse, president of a state trade group representing nursing homes and assisted living facilities. There is a possibility the process could start earlier than that, he said.