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Staffers in NJ nursing homes still resist COVID-19 vaccine
Clip: 8/25/2021 | 4m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Gov. Phil Murphy set a Sept. 7 deadline for health care workers to get COVID-19 shots.
“That light at the end of the tunnel? It now looks like a freight train heading in our direction,” is how Laurie Brewer, New Jersey’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman, describes the threat of resurgent COVID-19 cases, which have triggered lockdowns and restrictions on visits at 124 long-term care facilities in the state even as 25% of staff there continue to resist being vaccinated against the disease.
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Staffers in NJ nursing homes still resist COVID-19 vaccine
Clip: 8/25/2021 | 4m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
“That light at the end of the tunnel? It now looks like a freight train heading in our direction,” is how Laurie Brewer, New Jersey’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman, describes the threat of resurgent COVID-19 cases, which have triggered lockdowns and restrictions on visits at 124 long-term care facilities in the state even as 25% of staff there continue to resist being vaccinated against the disease.
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