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A worker inside the walk-in freezer at McKesson’s Olive Branch, Mississippi, distribution center begins packing the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into cooler boxes.
At least a third of the more than 300,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide have been reported among residents and employees of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
Long-term care facilities in Kansas City are preparing to be next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations following the FDA’s emergency authorization of the Moderna vaccine on Friday.
University of Kansas Health System officials said Monday that the distribution of the new vaccine will differ from that of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it doesn’t need to be housed in the same ultra-cold storage units.
Nursing home residents and staff at top of COVID-19 vaccine priority list
With the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine starting to roll out on Monday, nursing home staff and some residents can expect to start getting the vaccine as soon as Dec. 28.
Nursing home staff and residents are at the top of the list to get vaccines, along with front-line health care workers, according to doctors at a news conference Monday morning at the University of Kansas Health System, Kansas City, Kansas.
The federal government created partnerships with pharmacies to give the vaccines, and CVS and Walgreens will provide vaccines to most of the nursing homes in the nation, said Dr. Jessica Kalender-Rich, a physician in the geriatrics field at KU Health System, and a member of the national Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.
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