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Elderly at small residential care homes face challenges getting COVID-19 vaccine Anne Marshall-Chalmers © (Anne Daugherty / U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism) Alberto Solano, a caregiver at Casa Rivera Assisted Living & Memory Care in Rodeo, Calif., receives a COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Christina Ponce on Feb. 5. (Anne Daugherty / U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism) California’s effort to vaccinate people in residential care homes appears to have failed to reach many small facilities that are encountering problems making appointments for their resident...

Print California’s effort to vaccinate people in residential care homes appears to have failed to reach many small facilities that are encountering problems making appointments for their residents. The facilities, known as board and care homes, house a maximum of six residents each, but account for nearly 6,000 of the 7,400 residential care homes whose residents have been prioritized to receive the vaccine. The facilities, tucked into residential neighborhoods throughout the state, can house nearly 35,000 older people. Los Angeles County alone has about 1,200 board and care homes, by far th...