A new research-based guide is available to increase uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine among nursing home workers. Invest in Trust: A Guide for Building COVID-19 Vaccine Trust and Increasing Vaccination Rates Among CNAs addresses concerns and challenges nursing home workers have expressed and outlines the most effective approaches to build trust in the vaccine and make it easier for them to get vaccinated.
The Daily Yonder Industry Lobbying Left Nursing Homes Vulnerable in Pandemic Lax regulations and minimal enforcement left the nursing homes exposed to dangers of highly transmissible diseases long before the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic hit.
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Nursing home employee Ashley Ford at her home in DeMotte, Indiana. (Photo by John J. Watkins for The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting)
Even before Covid-19, aides caring for elderly and disabled people in nursing homes often were overworked and underpaid, doing everything from changing linens to helping residents eat to physically rotating them to prevent bed sores.
Ashley Ford often was one of four aides for as many as 42 residents at the Indiana nursing home where she’s worked since early 2019. She sometimes skipped breaks when work got busy so she wouldn’t leave patients waiting.
I worked for 20 hours yesterday. My body and spirit are broken.
So begins an oncology nurse s account of life in a hospital that s losing staff, where in the scramble for beds, someone with fever, cough, and shortness of breath lands in a unit occupied by immunocompromised patients. It s enough to bring the frustrated RN to tears. My anxiety is high, my mental health is in the toilet. I hope and pray we never have to live through a time like this again.
In a different hospital, another nurse, already on edge, braces for the next wave of illness: I m trying to mentally prepare myself. But my heart is broken at how broken the system is right now.
False claims tying coronavirus vaccines to infertility drive doubts among women of childbearing age
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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Niharika Sathe, center, an internal medicine physician, is in her second trimester of pregnancy. She decided to get the coronavirus vaccine after investigating false reports that it was linked to fertility issues.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel Wisniewski
Niharika Sathe, a 34-year-old internal medicine physician in New Jersey, first heard the fertility rumor from another doctor.
The friend confided that she would decline the coronavirus vaccine because of something she d seen online - that the shot could cause the immune system to attack the placenta, potentially leading to miscarriage and infertility. Sathe, who was early in her pregnancy at the time but had not told anyone, spent the next few weeks scrutinizing information from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Soci