Low staff COVID vaccine uptake tied to more nursing home cases, deathsIn US counties with high COVID-19 case rates, nursing homes with low staff vaccine uptake saw more infections and deaths among residents than those with high staff vaccination rates, according to a research letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).Led by a University of Rochester researcher, the team mined national data, primarily from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services COVID-19 Nursing Home Public File database.
The investigators grouped 12,364 nursing homes, representing 81% of all US nursing homes, into quartiles by staff COVID-19 vaccine coverage by Jun 13, 2021.From Jun 13 to Aug 22, nursing homes with the lowest COVID-19 staff uptake