‘Very complex’: Inside the process of distributing vaccines to Staten Island nursing homes
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Workers at Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Egbertville wave to family members of residents gathered outside the building. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The first doses of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine were delivered to Staten Island Monday, placed into syringes and administered to health care workers in a symbolic first step to overcoming an outbreak that has killed over 1,100 borough residents and shook the Island immeasurably in the past nine months.
Now, the process of delivering vaccines to the borough’s nursing homes, where more than 200 Staten Islanders are presumed or confirmed to have died of the disease since March, has begun.
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