Vaccine Medical Exemptions Are Rare. Thousands of Nursing Home Workers Have Them.

Posted on AllSides April 24th, 2022
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Laila Milevski/ProPublica

More than a year after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in nursing homes nationwide, the facilities have gone a long way toward blunting the virus’s threat to their most vulnerable residents.

Today, 88% of nursing home residents and 89% of employees are fully vaccinated, outstripping the rate among the general public. Even as cases soared to record levels in January with the rise of the omicron variant, the death rate of nursing home residents was a fraction of what it was during the surge at the end of 2020.

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