{"id":106573,"date":"2021-02-09T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=106573"},"modified":"2021-02-09T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:43:39","slug":"about-60-of-nursing-home-staff-declined-covid-vaccines-walgreens-exec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/about-60-of-nursing-home-staff-declined-covid-vaccines-walgreens-exec-says\/","title":{"rendered":"About 60% of nursing home staff declined Covid vaccines, Walgreens exec says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>About 60% of employees and 20% of residents at long-term care facilities declined the shots, said Rick Gates, Walgreens senior vice president of pharmacy and healthcare. <\/li>\n<li>The declined vaccines indicate another challenge that the country will face, particularly as pharmacies and community clinics get more doses of the shot: Vaccine hesitancy.<\/li>\n<li>Gates said he expects vaccines to be more widely available at its stores in late March or early April.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many Americans have logged on to websites before sunrise, waited in long lines and driven hours to get Covid vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in nursing homes, the experience has been the opposite: About 60% of employees at long-term care facilities declined the shots, said Rick Gates, Walgreens senior vice president of pharmacy and healthcare. He said about 20% of residents declined the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We were seeing vaccine hesitancy \u2014 particularly among those that work in these facilities \u2014 that was higher than we expected,&quot; he said at CNBC&#x27;s Healthy Returns virtual event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreens and CVS Health were chosen by the federal government to administer vaccines to residents and staff at thousands of long-term care facilities across the country. Nursing home and assisted living residents were at the top of the priority list, along with health-care workers, because they have had a disproportionate number of Covid-19 outbreaks and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The declined vaccines indicate another challenge that the country will face, particularly as pharmacies and community clinics get more doses of the shot: Persuading the majority of Americans to get the lifesaving vaccine, which will help protect the broader public and allow the economy to gradually return to some degree of normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>Gates said excess vaccines from long-term care facilities were ultimately returned to the states or given to other high-priority people.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Friday, Walgreens will offer vaccines in some stores in 15 states, along with the jurisdictions of Chicago and New York City, as part of a federal pharmacy program. It will administer the vaccines to priority groups at those stores, such as older Americans or people with medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Gates said the pharmacy chain looks forward to taking on a bigger role in the vaccination effort, but said &quot;vaccine availability is the biggest hindrance.&quot; He said he expects doses to be more widely available for the general public across all of Walgreens stores in late March or early April.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/09\/covid-vaccine-60percent-of-nursing-home-staff-refused-shots-walgreens-exec-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 60% of employees and 20% of residents at long-term care facilities declined the shots, said Rick Gates, Walgreens senior vice president of pharmacy and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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