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COVID-19 cases plummeting among nursing home staffers, an 'encouraging' sign of the vaccines' effectiveness


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
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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.

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Covid-19 cases plunge 83% among US nursing home staff, despite vaccine hesitancy


Covid-19 cases plunge 83% among US nursing home staff, despite vaccine hesitancy
CNN
3/15/2021
By Melissa Bailey and Shoshana Dubnow, Kaiser Health News
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A healthcare worker administers the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine to residents and staff members at a retirement community in Pompano Beach, Florida, on January 6.
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 vaccines, the number of new covid 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.

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Covid cases fall over 80% among US nursing home staff and residents

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 vaccines, the number of new Covid cases among nursing home staff fell 83% – from 28,802 for the week ending 20 December to 4,764 for the week ending...

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COVID Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy

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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COVID Cases Plummet Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy

The decline suggests the vaccine is having an effect even though workers have been slower to take it than residents

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Covid cases plummet 83% among nursing home staffers despite vaccine hesitancy

Covid cases plummet 83% among nursing home staffers despite vaccine hesitancy
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COVID Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy

COVID Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy
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Nursing homes the focus of GOP's first COVID oversight hearing


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Without administration officials there taking questions, having dismissed the inquiry as a partisan exercise, there were no new answers.
Rima Samman says that closing in on a year later, family members still need answers from the state and nursing homes as to why COVID-positive people were readmitted from hospitals back to long-term care facilities, as well as the care that was – or was not – provided at the height of the pandemic last spring.
“We treat animals better than the way my brother was treated those last 48 hours,” Samman said.
Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long-Term Care Community Coalition, said the March 31, 2020, directive about readmitting residents is rightfully criticized but didn’t force nursing homes to take back sick residents if they didn’t have a way to keep them separate.

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Nursing homes the focus of GOP's first COVID oversight hearing

Nursing homes the focus of GOP's first COVID oversight hearing
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