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COVID-19 cases plummeting among nursing home staffers, an ‘encouraging’ sign of the vaccines’ effectiveness Updated Mar 16, 2021; Posted Mar 16, 2021 The Reservoir nursing home registered nurse Sophia Walker gets the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in West Hartford, Conn., on Dec. 18, 2020. (Brad Horrigan/The Hartford Courant/TNS)TNS Facebook Share Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going to work in the pandemic. When vaccines became available in December, she jumped at the chance to get one. Months later, it appears that danger has faded. After the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, the number of new COVID-19 cases among nursing home staff members fell 83% — from 28,802 for the week ending Dec. 20 to 4,764 for the week ending Feb. 14, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows.
Federal records show a steep decline in staff cases since December, when health care workers at thousands of nursing homes began getting their shots. Still, many are reluctant to get vaccinated.
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/ Larry Yabroff and his wife Mary greet each other during a visit at Chaparral House, the skilled nursing facility where Mary is a resident, in Berkeley on Feb. 25, 2021. The Yabroff’s have been married for more than 50 years but have been living separately since Larry had to place Mary in the care facility in February of last year. COVID-19 cases at California’s nursing homes have plummeted 98% since December. But long-term care facilities say they are waiting for state guidance before reopening to family visits. “The sacrifice our seniors have made has been very, very difficult and caused a lot of harm. Now is the time to stop sacrificing them,” one doctor said
Mississippi's state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, said the partnership "has been a fiasco." The state has committed 90,000 vaccine doses to the effort, but the pharmacies had administered only 5% of those shots as of Thursday, Dobbs said. Pharmacy officials told him they're having trouble finding enough people to staff the program. Dobbs pointed to neighboring Alabama and Louisiana, which he says are vaccinating long-term care residents at four times the rate of Mississippi. "We're getting a lot of angry people because it's going so slowly, and we're unhappy too," he said. Many of the nursing homes that have successfully vaccinated willing residents and staff members are doing so without federal help.