Vaccination of Nursing Home Staff Correlated with Fewer Cases and Deaths among Residents

Analyzing vaccination rates among staff in nursing facilities as of June 13, 2021, researchers find that nursing facilities with the lowest quartile (25%) staff vaccination rates had higher numbers of cases and deaths among residents than nursing facilities with the highest vaccination rates.  If all nursing facilities had staff vaccination rates in the highest quartile (82.7% of staff, on average), the researchers calculate that there would have been 4,775 fewer cases among residents (29% of the total cases), 7,501 fewer cases among staff (29% of the total), and 703 fewer resident deaths (48% of the total).

For further information, see “Nursing Home Staff Vaccination and Covid-19 Outcomes,” The New England Journal of Medicine (Dec. 8, 2021), https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2115674