Less than half of Tennessee nursing home workers chose to get vaccinated
According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, uptake among healthcare workers in TN nursing homes varies from 9% to 100%. Author: Grace King (10News) Updated: 8:31 PM CDT August 3, 2021
As cases of COVID-19 continue to climb, the Tennessee Department of Health said vaccinations are the best tool we have to fight it.
It s a tool Donna Bowlin and Brendan Swanson wish they had last October when their mother, Mildred Bowlin, died from the virus. It was so hard to see the life leave her body, Donna Bowlin said. She just wasted away. She laid in bed and she developed the lung and heart problems which she did not have before.
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For 109 families in Hamblen County, life will never be the same.
That is how many have died in the county so far from COVID-19 since last March when the disease hit the United States.
Tuesday, those 109 lives were honored with a COVID-19 memorial service on the lawn of the Hamblen County Courthouse. There were 109 chairs set up, one for each person who was claimed by this disease. Most chairs had a luminaria with either the name of that person all the way to those that had âbrother,â âsisterâ or âmotherâ for those who didnât want to use names.
It was irony that the memorial was held on the day that deaths went past the 400,000 mark from COVID-19. At 5:30 p.m., church bells from nearby churches could be heard tolling for the dead.