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The Eastern Kentucky nursing home where an unvaccinated worker started an outbreak of a COVID-19 variant that infected 46 people and killed three residents has been identified as the Life Care Center in Morehead. The March COVID-19 outbreak triggered a federal-state investigation that stressed the critical importance of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates among staff at such facilities. Kentucky, with only 44% of nursing home workers vaccinated, trails national trends. About 50% of workers in nursing homes or assisted living report they received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to a recent Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Kentucky public health officials initially declined to name the site of the outbreak the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used as an example of the risks of unvaccinated nursing home workers in an April 21 report. ....
View Comments The Eastern Kentucky nursing home where an unvaccinated worker started an outbreak of a COVID-19 variant that infected 46 people and killed three residents has been identified as the Life Care Center in Morehead. The March COVID-19 outbreak triggered a federal-state investigation that stressed the critical importance of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates among staff at such facilities. Kentucky, with only 44% of nursing home workers vaccinated, trails national trends. About 50% of workers in nursing homes or assisted living report they received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to a recent Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Kentucky public health officials initially declined to name the site of the outbreak the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used as an example of the risks of unvaccinated nursing home workers in an April 21 report. ....
An outbreak of COVID-19 at a Kentucky nursing home where most residents were vaccinated is cited in a new federal study as an example of why it is imperative that more staff get vaccinated as new variants of the virus emerge. The study, released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found 18 residents and four workers at the nursing home who had been vaccinated tested positive for COVID-19 after an unvaccinated worker brought a variant, or new strain of the virus, into the facility. In all, 46 cases were identified at the nursing home in 26 residents and 20 workers. Three residents who contracted COVID-19 died, two of whom had not been vaccinated, the study said. ....