Over the last few weeks, Hebrew SeniorLife, an independent and assisted living provider, has been busy vaccinating staff and residents.
According to president and CEO Lou Woolf, the organization wants to vaccinate roughly 5,000 people. So far, he says about 60 - 70-percent of that number have received the first dose of the vaccine.
But he says there is still some hesitancy among staff.
"There are folks ... who have very good cultural, historic reasons why they have some hesitancy taking the vaccine," Woolf said. "It's very important to listen to those folks and understand from their perspective what their very valid reason is. These are people who have lived with this virus for quite a while working here. They've seen the impact. So it's not like they aren't taking it seriously. So to the extent that someone's hesitant, they typically have a good reason, from their perspective. It's very important to listen and to understand, and to have peer-to-peer discussions. So we feel all is going well as long as you're patient."
We also heard from Dr. Ann Murray, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, about a rare complication of COVID-19 in children called pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome.
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Dr. Ann Murray - 2:07
Lou Woolf - 14:44
