Unvaccinated staff eyed in rising nursing home COVID cases, deaths

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-rising-nursing-home-covid-cases-deaths-delta-variant-spreads/507-318b8aa8-4fa6-4f84-809e-ba8dd4d851ee

Some policy experts are urging the government to require nursing home staffers get shots, but operators fear that could prompt some to simply quit their jobs.



Published: 7/21/2021 12:40:35 PM
Updated: 12:58 PM CDT July 21, 2021
WASHINGTON — Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities in July, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated.

The investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of facilities in the Grand Junction, Colorado, area raises concerns among public health doctors that successes in protecting vulnerable elders with vaccines could be in peril as the more aggressive delta variant spreads across the country.

More at link.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Gee, ya think?

Can't understand medical and medical adjacent people not getting vaccinated.

[SheltieLover]

4. I don't either!

[onecaliberal]

2. How is this not murder?

[SheltieLover]

5. It is imo!

[Ms. Toad]

3. Aside from staff not being vaccinated -

Those in nursing homes were among the first vaccinated, so if (as one article suggested) the vaccinations weaken significantly at around 6 months, the problem is compounded by elderly immune systems, potentially weakened immunity, and a staff that draws largely from the population least inclined to be vaccinated.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Insanity. No excuse for unvaccinated people working in nursing homes.

Is this not actionable?

It seems like negligence and intentional depravity.