{"id":165066,"date":"2021-01-28T03:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomo-finally-releases-nursing-home-covid-vaccine-data\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T03:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:50:44","slug":"cuomo-finally-releases-nursing-home-covid-vaccine-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomo-finally-releases-nursing-home-covid-vaccine-data\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo finally releases nursing home COVID vaccine data"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo finally releases nursing home COVID vaccine data<\/strong>”
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday finally released detailed figures of nursing-home coronavirus vaccination rates amid criticism over the lack of information \u2014 revealing that less than half of workers at Big App<\/a>le facilities have received the jab.<\/p>\n

Following a query from The Post, the governor\u2019s office posted regional data on inoculation rates for nursing home workers and residents on its vaccine tracking <\/a>website.<\/p>\n

The state said it also plans to soon release vaccination rates for individual nursing homes \u2014 as it has long done for hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like with our testing tracker it\u2019s being built out and will be continuously updated with more and more granular information as time moves on,\u201d said Cuomo senior adviser Rich Azzopardi.<\/p>\n

The data already released is troubling.<\/p>\n

Only 40 percent of nursing homes staffers in New York City and Long Island have been vaccinated for the virus \u2014 tied for lowest in the state. And 65 percent of residents at the Big Apple facilities have been jabbed \u2014 though that is still far lower than all other regions.<\/p>\n

The Post reported Tuesday that there were many nursing homes in the city, including the Holliswood Center in Queens, where 20 percent or fewer staffers had been vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Vaccinations at long-term care facilities \u2014 which are being done by CVS and Walgreens through a federal program \u2014 are considered crucial in helping prevent the spread of COVID-19 among immuno-suppressed, frail and elderly residents. <\/p>\n

It is not clear, however, if the shots stop people from spreading the virus, rather than just getting it. <\/p>\n

One nursing home industry advocate said that the low vaccination rates are alarming.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is going to send their loved ones to a nursing home if they don\u2019t have confidence that they\u2019re safe?\u201d said Michael Balboni, executive director of the Greater NY Health Care Facilities Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be profound implications for the long term care industry long-term if we don\u2019t raise those vaccination rates,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A state Health Department report released last July claimed that COVID-19 asymptomatic nursing home staffers were partly responsible for infections and deaths of facility residents.<\/p>\n

The report was issued after Cuomo was ripped for a controversial March 2020 order that required nursing homes to accept or re-admit recovering or suspected COVID-19 patients from hospitals. The order was later rescinded.<\/p>\n

Earlier Wednesday, the Empire Center for Public Policy had posted a column slamming Cuomo for not being more forthcoming with nursing home vaccination data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cuomo administration\u2019s resistance to sharing pandemic data from nursing homes has broadened to withholding vaccination numbers as well as full death counts,\u201d the watchdog group\u2019s health analyst Bill Hammond said in a blog <\/a>post before Cuomo\u2019s Wednesday\u2019s briefing.<\/p>\n

The state has reported more than 8,400 nursing home residents having died from COVID-19. But that figure excludes potentially thousands of nursing home residents who fell ill with the coronavirus and died after being transported to hospitals.<\/p>\n

The Empire Center has sued the Cuomo administration to compel disclosure of the total number of nursing home resident deaths. Hammond claimed the state is stonewalling in releasing the data.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring his televised briefings, the governor frequently specifies what share of health-care workers have been vaccinated at individual hospitals across the state\u2014but he has given no comparable numbers for nursing homes,\u201d Hammond said.<\/p>\n

The statewide vaccination rate for nursing home staffers is 44 percent. By comparison, more than 70 percent of Empire State healthcare workers have received the shot. <\/p>\n

The rates were low all over, not just in the city and on Long Island. Only about half the nursing home staffers \u2014 51 percent in the Syracuse\/Central New York area and the North Country got vaccinated \u2014 the highest rates in the state.<\/p>\n

One nursing home industry source said that the facilities staggered vaccinations for staffers, which is partly responsible for the lower vaccination rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was done just in case there was an adverse reaction to the vaccine,\u201d said James Clyne, CEO of Leading Age NY.<\/p>\n

But he added, \u201cSome facilities have done a better job of educating staffers than others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo, during his Wednesday briefing, said he expected nursing home staff vaccination rates to increase as more doses become available.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll will have been offered the vaccine by Feb. 7, when the second round of nursing home vaccinations are completed,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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