* WBEZ …
Four weeks after COVID-19 vaccinations at nursing homes in Illinois, nearly 80% of the doses for the campaign are waiting to be used, but the pharmacy chains that do the work say everything is going according to plan.
CVS Health and Walgreens administered only 110,403 of the 550,050 doses Illinois received for residents and staff members of long-term care facilities, according to the state’s public health data published Monday. […]
“The spread of the vaccines to long-term care facilities, where the most vulnerable population lives, is not fast enough and needs to improve,” said Karen Messer, head of LeadingAge Illinois, which lobbies for 380 community care centers. mostly non-profit organizations. […]
“You have a captive population in these facilities,” he said. [Dr. Ronald Hershow, who directs epidemiology and biostatistics in the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health], who serves on a team advising IDPH on its COVID-19 responses. ‘It does not seem to be as logistically difficult as [vaccinating] the general population. ” […]
“Our effort to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to the long-term care community in Illinois is progressing according to plan and in close coordination with the state,” the CVS statement read.
The collaborators set up this public-private partnership program without apparently making sure that Walgreens and CVS have the ability to fulfill their duties (typical DC during this whole joke). The state has instructed that pharmacy businesses should vaccinate residents / staff of skilled nursing home residents first, as this is where the highest mortality rate is. The attempt began a month ago. The pharmacy chains end up just the first round in those capable nursing home facilities yesterday, according to the governors’ office. And there is much more to go, as evidenced by the fact that only a fifth of the available doses have been administered. For them to say that things are going as planned, it is simply ridiculous. No one planned this unscrupulous delay.
The pharmacies were actually so sluggish that the state decided to vaccinate residents of state veterans’ homes and some DHS facilities themselves rather than wait for Walgreens and CVS.
If you can not handle the task, then ask for help and cry out loud. And stop pointing fingers and obscuring the matter. The problem lies with all of you. Go for it.
The employees must immediately enter into these contracts and revisit or ensure that the companies receive the necessary assistance.
Ridiculous.
… Add… Florida …
After nearly three weeks of vaccinating residents and staff at long-term care facilities in Florida, CVS and Walgreens will no longer be part of the vaccinations, according to an update from the state agency for health care administration.
According to the AHCA, there are more than 321,000 residents and staff at the facilities in Florida. At the end of December, CVS and Walgreens pharmacies were selected by the federal government to help vaccinate this vulnerable population. From January 23, however, vaccinations at LTCs were taken over by a state program.