Nearly 570,000 residents and staff at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have received their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine through a federal partnership with
But an estimated 50% of frontline nursing home staff are still refusing to get the shots, which remains a persistent and glaring problem for the national effort to fully vaccinate the facilities.
“It may even be as high as 60% if you include other settings of care, like assisted living facilities,” said Christopher Laxton, executive director of AMDA—the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. ...