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Across the country, some nursing home directors and health care officials say the partnership between federal government and pharmacy retailers is actually hampering the vaccination process by imposing paperwork and cumbersome corporate policies on facilities that are thinly staffed and reeling from the devastating effects of the coronavirus
The effort to vaccinate some of the country’s most vulnerable residents against covid-19 has been slowed by a federal program that sends retail pharmacists into nursing homes — accompanied by layers of bureaucracy and logistical snafus.
Rural states got off to a faster start on vaccinations, but big urban centers expected to gain momentum CDC lists Massachusetts in the middle of the pack, along with Texas and New York. Email to a Friend Physician Alister Martin received one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Dec. 16.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff West Virginia deployed National Guard units to get first doses of the vaccine to every nursing home before New Yearâs Day. In South Dakota, the Civil Air Patrol waited at the Sioux Falls airport to ferry vac...
_ Somehow we’ve only distributed 30% of our vaccine allotment so far. There are other states at 62% so what’s the issue here? Plans were in the works for months, supposedly, and yet we haven’t included all the resources that we could to maximize personnel. We know the private pharmacy industry stands ready with almost a thousand individuals certified to give inoculations. Why haven’t we taken advantage of that? We should be using every tool available to get vaccines out as quickly as possible. – All across the country, states are vastly outpacing New Jersey in vaccination rate per p...