by Brendan J. Lyons, Times Union/TNS | January 26, 2021
ALBANY, N.Y. Thousands of individuals with disabilities who live in group home settings have seen their rate of vaccinations for coronavirus dwindle as the state has shifted doses to mass-vaccination sites and expanded the number of individuals eligible for the shots.
Roughly 30 percent of the Capital Region’s group home population about 11,000 individuals with disabilities and staff members who care for them in a 10-county region have been vaccinated through the first five weeks of the rollout. But when the state shifted to mass-vaccination sites, including one at the University of Albany, those locations were given in some cases 50 percent or more of a region’s doses.
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