Role-playing, planning for earthquakes, mass training: US health care centers prep for arrival of COVID-19 vaccine Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
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Hospitals and medical centers spent Sunday preparing for the first COVID-19 vaccine to arrive Monday morning, a massive undertaking that began when a caravan of semis guarded by unmarked police cars pulled out of the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan, just after dawn. © Rey Del Rio, Getty Images Shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are loaded into a UPS plane on December 13, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan.
Onlookers applauded and cheered as the tractor-trailers carrying 189 boxes of vaccine slowly rolled out. The doses held in those cartons will be injected into the arms of health care workers in all 50 states beginning Monday morning.
Nursing home patients, staff express vaccine fears
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After 110,000 coronavirus deaths, US nursing homes face vaccine fears
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After 110K virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears By Associated Press | December 14, 2020 at 8:27 AM CST - Updated January 12 at 12:47 PM
(AP) – After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots.
Being first has come with persistent fears that the places hit hardest in the pandemic accounting for nearly 40% of the nation’s death toll could be put at risk again by vaccines sped into development in months rather than years. Some who live and work in homes question if enough testing was done on the elderly, if enough is known of side effects and if the shots could do more harm than good.