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Taking Time to Re-open Long Term Care Facilities

Taking Time to Re-open Long Term Care Facilities

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The next phase of Covid-19 vaccinations in Nebraska will move to nursing home residents and staff. That is as vaccine doses become available.

Heath Boddy, President of the Nebraska Health Care Association, says long term care facilities can’t be insulated from the spread of the virus…

Boddy says it will take time to protect the residents and workers..

Boddy says there have been many sacrifices…

Federal data indicates that about six hundred residents of long-term care facilities in Nebraska have died due to Covid-19.

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