The investigation raises concerns among public health doctors that successes in protecting vulnerable elders with vaccines could be in peril
A nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre at UNLV, in Las Vegas on April 26, 2021.infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the centre of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated.
“Vaccinating workers in nursing homes is a national emergency because the delta variant is a threat even to those already vaccinated,” he said. Of the 16 fully vaccinated residents infected at the memory care facility, CDC found that 13 developed symptoms, described as mild in most cases. Experts generally agree that staff are one of the main triggers of nursing home outbreaks, because workers may unwittingly bring the virus in from the surrounding community before developing symptoms.With the arrival of vaccines and an aggressive effort to get residents immunized, cases and deaths plummeted and nursing homes emerged from lockdown. But COVID-19 has not been wiped out. As of the week ending July 4, there were 410 residents sickened nationwide and 146 who died.
Gelezunas asked that her mother interact with only vaccinated workers, but the directors said they couldn’t make promises because of privacy reasons and their inability to mandate inoculations for workers.
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