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  2021-03-31

  Federal Program To Bring Vaccine To Nursing Homes Missed Around Half Of Staff

  While the federal government put effort into getting residents and staff at nursing and retirement homes vaccinated, many remain unvaccinated. Some states even have less than a third percent of the staff vaccinated. This has impacted reopening timelines for the facilities and fears of spreading COVID-19.
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  04/08/2020

  State Policies May Send People with Disabilities to the Back of the Line for Ventilators

  An article by Liz Essley Whyte describing policies on medical rationing, state by state, and the efforts by disability advocacy groups to enforce equal access to lifesaving treatment. As disability rights activist Ari Ne’eman states in the article, ‘There is a long history of people with disabilities being devalued by the medical system. That’s why we have civil rights laws. We don’t have an exception in our country’s civil rights laws for clinical judgment. We don’t take it on trust.’ As Matthew Foster, an Alabama resident. says, ‘I have a right to live.’