The deaths add to what is becoming a familiar trend in the spread of the virus as it devastates religious congregate communities by infecting retired, aging populations of nuns and sisters.
West Virginia has used 83 percent of its allotted vaccines, among the best in the nation. But even efficient operations face a major problem: There simply are not enough shots to go around.
“My jaw dropped when I saw the table of outcomes,” said Dr. Myron Cohen, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a principal investigator who helped design and implement the study.
Although the study has ended, Dr. Daniel Skovronsky, Eli Lilly’s chief scientific officer, said the company would continue to rush to nursing homes in its study network when an outbreak is detected. “Everyone will get the drug,” he said.
Experts who were not part of the study were enthusiastic, but emphasized that they had not yet seen complete data. “I see only positives here,” said Dr. Ofer Levy, director of the precision vaccine program at Boston Children’s Hospital. “This is a win.”
A Different Life for Seniors
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To the Editor:
Re “Covid-19 Is Taking My Last Years,” by Toby Levy (Op-Ed, Jan. 4), reflects a concern among many seniors.
At 76 with some risk factors for Covid, I was at first angry about the “loss” of a year of concerts, museums, dancing and so on. During sessions in a meditation group and on my own, I came to the realization that I had not lost a year but had lived a different year.
This different year opened up Zoom meetings with friends and even trivia games. It opened up lectures that I might not have attended. As a doctor, I even did some telemedicine sessions with patients and was also a telemedicine patient myself.