388 - An Update on COVID-19 In Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities
Public Health On Call
English - October 25, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 33.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid19 education globalhealth health medicine coronavirus covid novelcoronavirus publichealth science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Across the US, 84% of residents in nursing homes and long-term care facilities are vaccinated for COVID-19, but only 64% of staff. Federal mandates could help but it’s unclear when or how those would be enforced and, in the meantime, the industry is already suffering from a severe staffing shortage. Dr. David Grabowski, a health policy researcher and professor at Harvard, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about this largely underpaid and overworked group of people, how vaccine mandates could play out, and what can be done to prevent a staffing and care crisis.