Housebound Elderly ‘Slipping Through the Cracks’ in Vaccine Rollout Warns Home Care Provider

Housebound Elderly ‘Slipping Through the Cracks’ in Vaccine Rollout Warns Home Care Provider
Trevor Cowlett, 88, receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, England on Jan. 4, 2021. Steve Parsons/Pool via Reuters
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Compared to their counterparts living in care homes, many elderly people being cared for at home may be “slipping through the cracks” by missing out on vaccines against the CCP virus, one of the UK’s largest domiciliary care providers has warned.

Home care provider Cera said on Monday that just 1 percent of its 10,000 service users, over half of whom are over 80, had thus far received a vaccine in the government’s rapid roll-out program.