The willingness of some workers to give up their livelihoods helps explain the country’s struggle to reach herd immunity. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Home Health Care”
34,000 Unvaccinated Home Health Aides in New York Lose Jobs
By Gotham Rex on October 9, 2021
The losses worsened a labor shortage in the industry, but the overall inoculation rate of 86 percent was higher than expected. Source: New York Times
How a Vaccine Mandate Could Worsen a Shortage of Home Care Aides
By Gotham Rex on October 7, 2021
Some 250,000 home health care workers must get the coronavirus vaccine by Friday, but tens of thousands of them have yet to receive it. Source: New York Times
Alexia’s Lifelong Nurse Has to Leave Her. Here’s Why.
By Gotham Rex on April 30, 2021
For the most fragile New Yorkers and those who care for them, turning 23 brings enormous consequences. Source: New York Times
Shots For Homebound New Yorkers Have Lagged. A Vaccine Pause Didn't Help.
By Gotham Rex on April 23, 2021
Efforts to vaccinate homebound seniors in New York have lagged, and the national pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine set them back further. Source: New York Times
Behind Closed Doors, ‘the Difficulty and the Beauty’ of Pandemic Hospice Work
By Gotham Rex on March 29, 2021
“I did not really understand when people would ask, ‘Why me and why my family?’” a hospice chaplain said. “Now I was asking the same questions.” Source: New York Times
A Covid-19 Lesson: Some Seriously Ill Patients Can Be Treated at Home
By Gotham Rex on July 18, 2020
To ease pressure on hospitals, Northwell Health brought medical workers, oxygen tanks and intravenous equipment into patients’ homes. Now Florida is taking cues. Source: New York Times