Community Corner
Schenectady Center Staff & Residents Get First COVID Vaccination
Staff Numbers are Solid Easily Beating the National Average of Nursing Home Staff Receiving Pfizer's Vaccination
On January 6, 2021 at Schenectady Center, the large 240-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility on Altamonte Avenue in Schenectady, pharmacists from Walgreens vaccinated many of the staff and residents there with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. It was highly welcomed as 31 percent of the staff consented, that's six to eleven percent more than the national average of nursing home staff who agreed to be vaccinated.
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With residents, over 70 percent or 70.5 percent received the first dosage, which according to a Jan 6, 2021 AARP article where the article talks about both residents and staff, the Schenectady Center number exceeds the national average for both staff and residents on this first vaccine day.
Walgreens pharmacists are scheduled to return to Schenectady Center on January 27 for the second dosage. This second dosage is needed for 95 percent effectiveness.