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Advocates seek to prioritize at-home vaccines for homebound seniors


By LAURA ROMERO and DR. JAY BHATT, ABC News
(NEW YORK) As mass inoculation against COVID-19 is underway across the country, advocates for the elderly are pushing to prioritize at-home vaccinations in order to protect the health of older, homebound adults.
Those who are homebound are just as high-risk for hospitalization and death as any other older adult, said Dr. Steven Landers, the CEO of Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, a New Jersey-based independent provider of home health, hospice and community-based care. They are visited by families, by health care professionals. They deserve to be protected.
In a letter sent Tuesday to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, a group of advocates including officials with the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), which represents more than 14,000 long-term care facilities, urged the Biden administration to prioritize vulnerable individuals, including the homebound. ....

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Countless Homebound Patients Still Wait For Vaccine Despite Seniors' Priority


Dr. Steven Landers, president and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Sam Ferguson of Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Opening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors.
Boston Medical Center, which runs the oldest in-home medical service in the country, started doing this Feb. 1. Wake Forest Baptist Health, a North Carolina health system, followed a week later.
In Miami Beach, fire department paramedics are delivering vaccines to frail seniors in their own homes. In East St. Louis, Illinois, a visiting nurse service is offering at-home vaccines to low-income, sick older adults who receive food from Meals on Wheels. ....

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