Hunters or hunted? Nursing homes’ 75-percent vaccination target may decide
In setting an ambitious nationwide staff-vaccination goal, providers may have unintentionally slapped a bull’s eye on their own backs.
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‘Back to normal’ already here for nursing homes
Skilled nursing operators pondering when things would get back to normal need no longer wonder. In many ways, you’re already there.
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75 percent of U.S. seniors now vaccinated; some states’ rates even higher
The new CDC number reflects adults aged 65 years and older who have received at least one vaccine dose. One state takes the top spot nationwide, with nearly 90% of first shots completed in this age group.
Feds’ grassroots vaccination campaign includes physicians as trusted voices
Vice President Kamala Harris met Thursday with 275 founding members of the Biden administration’s Community Corps, a group charged with encouraging Americans to get vaccinated. The initiative is part of a sweeping outreach campaign.
Robust response to virus variants expected in former COVID patients and the vaccinated
Blood samples from recovered COVID-19 patients show that they and their vaccinated peers should be able to fend off the virus and its variants in future encounters, NIH researchers say.
The COVID race: Vaccines 90% effective in frontline workers, but variant cases rising
The pace of U.S. vaccinations must hold up against the effects of spreading virus variants to keep further outbreaks under control, according to the CDC and expert observers.
Elders’ hospitalizations fall; 7 in 10 have at least one COVID shot
Hospitalizations are down for the U.S. population overall, and older Americans account for an increasingly smaller proportion of admissions, according to the latest weekly data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rare COVID reinfections more common in adults age 65 years and up: study
Seniors are more likely to contract COVID-19 again — with only 47% protection against repeat infection, compared with 80% for younger people, according to a new, large-scale study from Denmark.
Despite vaccine hesitancy, coronavirus cases among nursing home staff nose-dive 83%
Like nursing home residents, COVID-19 cases among workers have plummeted at a rapid rate since peaking in late December.
