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COVID-19 vaccines have allowed nursing homes in the U.S. to make dramatic progress since the dark days of the pandemic, but senior care facilities are still experiencing scattered outbreaks that are largely blamed on unvaccinated staff members.
Hundreds of deaths each week inside nursing homes continue to be attributed to the coronavirus
Nursing homes across the country are still reporting scattered COVID-19 outbreaks and COVID-associated deaths. Those facilities are subsequently following federal and state recommendations to pause visitations, causing disappointment and frustration among family members who hoped to get back to normal once the residents were fully vaccinated.
Jeannie Wells had hoped that regular visits would resume at her elderly mother’s New...
Hundreds of COVID Deaths Still Occurring Each Week in U.S. Nursing Homes On 6/1/21 at 3:15 PM EDT Associated Press reported. The data shows that the number of nursing home deaths related to COVID-19 is down from 10,675 in the first two weeks of January to 472 in the first two weeks of May. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that low rates of vaccination among health care workers in nursing homes raises the risk of outbreaks. While the outbreaks are less common than earlier in the pandemic, they have disrupted plans for in-person meetings for the first time since the p...