One nursing home won t see the vaccine until Jan. 15, another won t have all of its people vaccinated until mid-February and a couple others are still waiting to hear when their residents and staff will be vaccinated.
A spokesperson for the state s COVID-19 Command Center said vaccinations clinics are scheduled over the next several weeks, but didn t answer the reason as to why some long-term care facilities won t see the vaccine for weeks.
Phase 1 of the vaccine rollout in Massachusetts, which is expected to go into February, includes long-term care facilities as second in line behind clinical and COVID-facing health care workers.
BROCKTON Since March, when the coronavirus first knowingly arrived in Brockton, more than 150 residents of city nursing homes have succumbed to COVID-19.
The five nursing homes were ravaged by the highly contagious disease early in the pandemic, with hundreds of residents becoming infected.
None of the city s nursing homes have reported any new deaths attributed to COVID-19 since at least Sept. 8, when the death toll increased by two over the previous week.
Having no new deaths can partly be attributed to a low number of new cases since that time. The COVID-19 cycle begins with new cases, hospitalizations follow and ultimately there are some deaths.