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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Don't You Work With Old People?": Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
@RVAwonk
More than 40% of the nations nursing home & long-term health care workers still arent vaccinated.
The situation in these places is worse than you can possibly imagine, but no one and I mean no one who could do anything about it actually will.
Dont You Work With Old People?: Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Amid a pandemic of the unvaccinated, more than 40% of the nations nursing home and long-term health care workers have yet to receive vaccinations.
propublica.org
2:36 PM · Jul 23, 2021
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
@RVAwonk
More than 40% of the nations nursing home & long-term health care workers still arent vaccinated.
The situation in these places is worse than you can possibly imagine, but no one and I mean no one who could do anything about it actually will.
Dont You Work With Old People?: Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Amid a pandemic of the unvaccinated, more than 40% of the nations nursing home and long-term health care workers have yet to receive vaccinations.
propublica.org
2:36 PM · Jul 23, 2021
https://www.propublica.org/article/dont-you-work-with-old-people-many-elder-care-workers-still-refuse-to-get-covid-19-vaccine
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Nursing homes faced a shocking mortality rate during the pandemic. In the U.S., COVID-19 killed more than 133,000 residents and nearly 2,000 staff members between May 31, 2020 and this July 4, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports. The true toll is thought to be even higher as data gathering lagged in the early months of the crisis, health experts say.
Working in a nursing home became one of the most dangerous jobs in America in 2020, according to an analysis of work-related deaths by Scientific American.
Yet seven months after the first vaccines became available to medical professionals, only 59% of staff at the nations nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are fully or partially vaccinated with eight states reporting an average rate of less than half, according to CMS data updated last week.
Twenty-three individual facilities had vaccination rates of under 1%, the data showed.
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"Don't You Work With Old People?": Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse to Get COVID-19 Vaccine (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2021
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pandr32
(11,579 posts)1. This makes my blood boil
RainCaster
(10,869 posts)2. Why are they still employed?
That should be mandatory, IMO.
liberal_mama
(1,495 posts)3. Probably because there are labor shortages in the industry
My sister-in-law works for a large group of nursing homes and she says they can't find people to work. Of course, she's a Trumper and blames it on Biden giving everyone free money. But the true problem is that it's really a bad job for not so great pay.
RainCaster
(10,869 posts)4. My daughter works for a hospital
She's a Hillary & Joe voter, but she is frustrated that after 3 years of college she still can't make enough money to live on her own. We are frustrated too, because we are subsidizing a rediculously expensive catholic hospital, and we are not only not catholic, but we don't get a tax deduction for this.