Health care experts urge New Hampshire to be more like Vermont with COVID-19 prevention
Modified: 12/19/2020 9:52:02 PM
HANOVER Several Upper Valley health care providers and researchers are calling on New Hampshire to take more aggressive action to curb transmission of COVID-19 to prevent illness, death and overcrowding at hospitals.
While some said they recognize the challenge of balancing what may seem like competing needs of the economy and public health, they argued that targeted restrictions including several enacted in neighboring Vermont are needed. Moreover, some said, preventing an uncontrolled surge will benefit the economy in the long run.
Beware of a “false dichotomy lives versus livelihoods,” said Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, a researcher at the Dartmouth Center for Health Equity. “You can move both priorities forward.”
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Staff and residents at New Hampshire s long-term care facilities are slated to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday through a federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens.
But some facilities say they ve had minimal communication with their pharmacy partners, and still don t know when they ll get their vaccines.
One of those is Mountain View Community, a nursing home in Ossipee. Howard Chandler, the home s administrator, said the lack of communication has been frustrating. He believes people in long-term care settings, especially those that have had COVID-19 outbreaks, should get the vaccine sooner since they ve been at such high risk.
Modified: 12/18/2020 11:53:01 AM
Staff and residents at New Hampshire’s long-term care facilities are slated to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday through a federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens.
But some facilities say they’ve had minimal communication with their pharmacy partners, and still don’t know when they’ll get their vaccines.
One of those is Mountain View Community, a nursing home in Ossipee. Howard Chandler, the home’s administrator, said the lack of communication has been frustrating. He believes people in long-term care settings, especially those that have had COVID-19 outbreaks, should get the vaccine sooner since they’ve been at such high risk.
Published: 12/16/2020 5:33:09 PM
Hope for the end of the pandemic has arrived as New Hampshire begins to distribute more than 12,000 vaccines. Nursing homes, however, are still grappling with the ongoing fallout from COVID outbreaks that have ravaged their facilities and are wondering when their vaccines will arrive.
Many doses in the first wave of vaccines are expected to go to frontline workers in long-term care facilities. Yet several nursing homes in the Granite State say they’ve been left in the dark about when their staff will receive the shots. Patricia Ramsey, the owner of Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth, said several nursing homes including her own haven’t been contacted to schedule vaccination appointments.
As nursing homes wait for COVID-19 vaccines, they face dire staffing, financial challenges
The New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Geoff Forester
Published: 12/15/2020 3:33:14 PM
Hope for the end of the pandemic has arrived in New Hampshire as the state begins to distribute more than 12,000 vaccines. Nursing homes in the state, however, are still grappling with the ongoing fallout from outbreaks that have ravaged their facilities and are wondering when their vaccines will arrive.
Many doses in the first wave of vaccines are expected to go to front line workers in long term care facilities. Yet several nursing homes in the Granite State say they’ve been left in the dark about when their staff will receive the shots. Patricia Ramsey, the owner of Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth, said several nursing homes including her own haven’t been contacted to schedule vaccination appointments.