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Coronavirus vaccines protect residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities against more contagious variants of the virus, according to aÂ
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of an outbreak of a more contagious variant in a Kentucky nursing home.
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The study reported that the first case identified was in a health-care worker at the facility who had symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, but had not been vaccinated. Only 53 percent of the health-care workers at the facility had been vaccinated, the study said, while 90% of the residents had.
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The outbreak and the study provided a test of vaccines against the more contagious variant, which had not been identified until the outbreak.
For the first time in the pandemic, new cases of the novel coronavirus have dropped in Kentucky for four weeks in a row. Likewise, the stateâs positive-test rate has also declined for the last four weeks.
âThe trends are all moving in the right direction, and that only happens from your hard work,â Gov. Andy Beshear said at a news conference. âWe have more people wearing masks, we have more people social distancing, weâre having fewer large gatherings at homes or out in public; we must keep this up because we do not want to lose this progress.â
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