Nursing Homes Are Seeing COVID-19 Cases Drop Due To Vaccines, Federal Officials Say

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“These are really good vaccines, and we are seeing them take effect, which is wonderful,” said one epidemiologist.

suggests, accelerating a 22% drop in nursing home COVID-19 case rates seen from Dec. 20 to Jan. 10.

“What we believe is beginning to be shown with this data is now we’re seeing the effect of both the interventions, but also the vaccine.”COVID-19 case rates in nursing homes fell sharply in January, compared to the general population . “These are really good vaccines, and we are seeing them take effect, which is wonderful,” said Rutherford. “The data showed that they had good efficacy even after one shot, which I suspect is what we are starting to see here.”of same-county COVID-19 cases in 800 vaccinated skilled nursing facilities against 1,7000 unvaccinated ones released on Thursday by an American Health Care Association research center.

 

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