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Just Half of Long-Term Caretakers Are Vaccinated Against COVID
Marie Branham, resident director at Atria Springdale in Louisville, Kentucky, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 21. She was one of the first staff members at the long-term care facility to be vaccinated.
Atria Senior Living
FORT WORTH, Texas When Alice Hakata first heard her colleagues at the Midlothian Healthcare Center debating whether they were going to take a COVID-19 vaccine, she remembers joking with them, “Well, that just makes the line in front of me shorter.”
The 59-year-old physical therapist got her first shot in late January at a mass vaccination site in Fort Worth. As she waited for her second dose, she continued hearing staff members at the skilled nursing facility, located 25 miles south of Dallas, sharing their fears about the vaccines.