COVID-19 risks reemerge at nursing homes as workers decline vaccine and new residents struggle to get shots Facilities are âa petri dish where we could have a resurgenceâ By Kay Lazar Globe Staff,Updated May 8, 2021, 1:48 p.m. Email to a Friend A team of pharmacists from CVS, including Taline Tokatlian at center, prepared to vaccinate residents of Life Care of Acton in December, when the state aggressively pushed for protection for nursing home residents across the state.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff It was a battle many thought we had already won. Residents of nursing homes, the people most at risk of dying in the COVID-19 pandemic, were among the first to get vaccinated last winter, leading to a dramatic decline in new infections.