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Crown Pointe Care Center resident Rebecca Meeker, left, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from dr. Kate Latta, PharmD, in Columbus, Ohio.
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About 60 percent of nursing home workers in Ohio have so far chosen to take the COVID-19 vaccine as coronavirus-related deaths have risen in the state.
“We’re not going to make it, but we wish they had a higher compliance,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told nursing home staff at a news conference Wednesday, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
“Everyone makes their own choice about this, but we want to make it clear that the opportunity may not come back for a while,” the governor said.
The large number of workers in the nursing home who choose not to take the vaccine comes when the state experiences its deadliest month of the pandemic.
Ohio reported 2,426 deaths from COVID-19 in December, the report said. In all, more than 8,800 people in the state have died from the disease since the onset of the pandemic.