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For: The Opinion
Saturday, October 5
United States Calls Nursing Home Staff to Receive Booster Vaccine
The United States government has asked staff who work in nursing homes to receive the booster vaccine, especially due to a increase in covid cases – 27 among these workers, in addition to the lag that begins to worry among residents and their staff.
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services , made a call, assuring that the Omicron variant “is super fast and we cannot afford another covid surge – 19 in homes for the elderly. You know it and I know it. Higher numbers of covid cases will likely again have a devastating impact in our loved ones. ”
President Joe Biden has assured that the United States is better prepared to deal with an increase in infections this winter than it was the previous one, and that statement is put on trial precisely because of the situation in nursing homes.
Although their residents are only a small part of the population, this sector has represented a disproportionate share of people who have died in the United States during the pandemic.
Months ago, the irruption of the vaccine put the infections in the homes of the elderly under control and it was possible to receive visits again, but the return to normality imposed since then it could be in game with the arrival of Omicron.
The week ended on 27 in December, cases among employees of these centers reached 10, 353, an increase of almost 80% compared to the previous week, they indicated the CDC. As for the residents of these homes, who are more vaccinated, the cases hardly increased slightly, but not the deaths.
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