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Although workers and residents of nursing homes rank among the highest priority for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, nursing homes wonât be getting the vaccine until next week at the earliest, and some must wait until January, nursing home officials said on Monday.
Thatâs because nursing homes are outside of the state-operated distribution system that started in earnest on Monday when state workers took possession of 12,675 doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
Nursing homes are part of a separate distribution system established under a public-private partnership involving the Trump administration and pharmacy giants CVS and Walgreens, said Brendan Williams, president and chief-executive of the New Hampshire Health Care Association, the trade group that represents most of the stateâs nursing homes.