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Dr. Steven Landers, president and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Sam Ferguson of Asbury Park, New Jersey. Opening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors. Boston Medical Center, which runs the oldest in-home medical service in the country, started doing this Feb. 1. Wake Forest Baptist Health, a North Carolina health system, followed a week later. In Miami Beach, ...

Between 2 million and 4.4 million older adults are homebound and at extremely high risk of dying from COVID-19. Yet, they haven’t been recognized as a priority group for vaccines.

Between 2 million and 4.4 million older adults are homebound and at extremely high risk of dying from COVID-19. Yet, they haven’t been recognized as a priority group for vaccines.

‘This is a hidden group that’s going to be overlooked if we don’t step up efforts to reach them,’ Dr. Steven Landers says of the nation’s millions of older, homebound adults.