Countless Homebound Patients Still Wait for Covid Vaccine Despite Seniors’ Priority

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)

Opening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors.

Boston Medical Center, which runs the oldest in-home medical service in the country, started doing this Feb. 1. Wake Forest Baptist Health, a North Carolina health system, followed a week later. Continue reading the article here…

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