With new nursing home guidelines, card games with grandpa are back, regardless of your vaccination status

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You can hug your vaccinated grandpa and stay to play cards with him at his nursing home, even if you haven't been vaccinated, according to new Covid-19 guidance for nursing homes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The guidance goes into effect immediately.What's in the $1.9 trillion rescue plan for small businessesThese recommendations are a little different than the ones released Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for fully vaccinated people in the general population, which allow meeting indoors in small groups without masks or physical distancing -- even for the elderly.

Eli Lilly CEO: Antibody drugs can prevent infections in nursing homes 02:15Laxton said family visits bring more than just comfort. "Families really provide a sort of second line of health and care for these nursing homes. There's never enough staff, especially now in Covid," said Laxton."So having families come and help feed their residents, and engage them in activities, stuff that might ordinarily take a staff person or a couple of to do, is a huge help.

Smith Sloan added, though, that community spread is still a threat to vulnerable residents. People must do whatever they can to reduce transmission of the coronavirus."In short," she wrote,"vigilance is still required."CNN's Lauren Mascarenhas contributed to this report

 

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I too want a normal life again. I want to hug my parents after a year of social distansing. But now the US has put an export ban on Astra Zeneca so they cannot fulfill their end of the deal with the EU regarding vaccines... These aren't even doses that the US needs. So unfair. 😢

Creepy. Send a lame card. Move on. Sentimentality is quick sand.

Work with people who will bring positive changes into your life marvelousarthur brought peace and happiness into my life and I will always appreciate her for that.

You should be able to walk in and hug him. This is BS!

This is so awesome. Thank God President Biden got these vaccines out, and had a plan to do so, all across the country! Trump would still be doling them out to his red state Governor friends. 🙄

In Africa and indeed many parts of the world, the nursing or senior citizens home does not exist. Caring for the elderly are the responsibility of the family.

In the UK you can be tracked traced AND vaccinated but

Wow!!!!!’ Thx CDC!! Let me know when I can go from 3 masks to 2 please also.

When are the fools going to open the schools and stop being subservient to the corrupt Teachers Unions? They are literally killing our kids. Suicides up 100%. Depression way up, child abuse way up. And only 5% of the Billions for schools can even be used this year!

Is playing Twister allowed yet?

Lol okay...so basically I have zero reason to get the vaccine if everyone around me got the vaccine? That’s literally what I’ve been saying but im glad the science finally backs me.

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