The risk of COVID-19 to vulnerable older adults and their caregivers is quite high. The vaccine provides a critical opportunity to protect both residents and staff in long term care. This presentation will explore some of the challenges in achieving high vaccination rates and will describe approaches to improving vaccine confidence.
Speaker:
Michael Wasserman, MD, CMD is a geriatrician. He served as a member of the National Academy of Science’s “A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus” Committee and is a member of California’s Community Vaccine Advisory Committee. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s upcoming textbook, Geriatric Medicine: A Person Centered Evidence Based Approach.