Super excited to get my COVID vaccine today with my nursing home! Ready for this pandemic to be done! #paltc Penn Medicine Penn Geriatrics
youtu.be/III4KZt9EWM

NEW: America's nursing homes, an epicenter of the coronavirus, are preparing to vaccinate residents and staff.

But there's bound to be hiccups. Some are wary of getting the vaccine at all.
A look inside this major effort w/Rebecca Robbins

nytimes.com/2020/12/16/bus…

Concurrent w/ FDA external review, the BioNTech SE @Pfizer vaccine data are published in NEJM
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… with editorial 'This is a triumph.'

All the other docs have signed off saying there’s nothing they can do? I’d love to take care of the patient.

Kate Jopling There's no unobjectionable word for older people, because what people dislike/what society disdains isn't the term, it's the status. It's being old. No euphemism is euphemistic enough. I go with 'elders,' myself, but 'old people' is also fine by me. I'm 71. I'm old. It's fine.

If we tell people to stay 6 feet away, inevitably someone will think they are being safe by staying 6 ft 1 inch apart and another by staying 5 ft 11 inches apart. Both will think the other is the idiot yet both are playing the wrong game. Don’t take unnecessary risks period.

Judith Graham All you need to read is CVS/Walgreens using the term “clinic” to describe their approach to vaccinations in NHs. This will not turn out well.

COVID-19 continues to surge through the country’s long-term-care facilities. Our count from last week shows 51,574 new cases reported—the highest weekly number of the last 6 months. Nationally, deaths increased by 27% from last week. covidtracking.com/blog/ltc-surge…

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Specific issues:
1) Coordinating only 3 visits
2) Staffing when pple have side effects
3) Consenting (3-page written consent...residents have dementia, families can't come in, verbal consent not allowed)
4) Many staff don't want it.

If anyone can watch this and still think of old people as less than human or easy to sacrifice in pandemic, I give up

There is a magical number we rarely talk about, and that's how many patients every doctor can see and still take good care of all them.