National effort to vaccinate nursing homes is off to a slow start
Print When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended last month that residents and staff of long-term care facilities be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, Sondra Norder breathed a sigh of relief. The president and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin has seen 100 residents contract COVID-19 across her two campuses over the course of the pandemic. Twenty-eight have died. “The trauma we have been through, the isolation we have been through, the demand physically and mentally over the last 10 months — we’ve just been disproportionately impacted,”...
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