Mississippi's military veterans can't get the Covid-19 vaccine if they live in a State Veteran's Home. Mississippi VA Executive Director Stacey Pickering said CVS is responsible for delivering the vaccine to the State Veteran's Homes but has not yet done so.
Mr. Pickering said his vets have a "B" classification for priority in receiving the vaccine. 200 vets, nearly half of his current population, signed up to receive the vaccine. He said "they want the vaccine. They've seen their friends die. They understand how serious this is and they want it."
The Health Department received the doses "on paper" but never took actual possession of them as they were delivered directly to CVS. Mr. Pickering said he has not been able to get an answer from CVS. The term "black hole" was used in the conversation.
The current census is approximately 430 patients, down from the normal census of 600 patients thanks to deaths and no new admissions during the pandemic.
"A" classification includes health care workers and long term care residents. "B" classification covers "essential" front-line workers and people over the age of 75. The Health Department classifies the Veteran's Homes as "B" because they are not certified for Medicaid or Medicare despite the lack of such a requirement in the CDC guidelines.*
Attempts to obtain comment from the Mississippi State Department of Health were unsuccessful.
On December 1, ACIP recommended that 1) health care personnel§ and 2) residents of long-term care facilities¶ be offered COVID-19 vaccination first, in Phase 1a of the vaccination program (2). On December 20, 2020, ACIP recommended that in Phase 1b, vaccine should be offered to persons aged ≥75 years and frontline essential workers (non–health care workers), and that in Phase 1c, persons aged 65–74 years, persons aged 16–64 years with high-risk medical conditions, and essential workers not recommended for vaccination in Phase 1b should be offered vaccine.
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I predict the shot won't be available to the man on the street until sometime this summer-
Shame on our elected officials. Veterans should have been first. I would like to know how many of our elected officials were vaccinated ahead of the veterans, Shame shame shame shame.
Outrageous
I can’t get it either.
My dad is in the Collins veterans home. My mom is in a private home 5 miles away. My mom was vaccinated 2 weeks ago. Doesn’t make sense
Yanno when you dedicate your entire careers and political platform to "small government" and depending on privatization over all, you run into issues where a well oiled functioning Government would REALLY help but can't because you've spent decades making sure that doesn't happen. Vaya Con Dios.
Being a vet myself, I find the VA doesn't do anything unless you raise Hell & embarrass them. They talk a good talk but no action. Double Shame! Next election this needs to be a topic of discussion. I'm sure it will.
This whole CO-VID pandemic has been handled very poorly by the leaders of this country.
I am a veteran of 32 years. Thankfully, I am not in a nursing home. That said I don't know that being a veteran should entitle someone to get the vaccine sooner than a non-veteran. Now, if a veteran falls into another category that would allow them to get the vaccine sooner than others, then fine.
this "rollout" will be the scandal of 2021. The delays are inexcusable. Heads will roll
None of the response to Covid-19 is about saving people. It is all about control. TPTB want this.
Japan is a prime example of a nation who has done absolutely everything and they are in a full state of emergency. Meanwhile their economy is in absolute shambles.
Can’t deliver what you don’t have, Wrap Speed is a Colossal failure on supply and delivery.
@12:20
The issue is not that the veterans homes were not first. The issue is that they have been left out
Can the Govt. do anything productive?
I got a notice from my bank about stimlus checks. Go figure.
At this time, the best information available to us suggests that the IRS did not apply, or did not correctly apply, a potential fix for payments in round 1 EIPs that were sent to tax preparers. We believe that the result is that the IRS may have sent as many as 15-20 million EIPs in error to the bank accounts of the tax preparers. To compound the problem, the IRS might not be able to make accurate information on this problem available via the “Get My Payment” portal. If you used a tax preparer and did not receive the expected stimulus deposit directly into your account, your stimulus funds may have been sent to your tax preparer.
Is this Mississippi or what? We used to take care of our military heroes
This is what happens when we elect people who never served.
12:46 - they have NOT been left out!. The residents will get their vaccine when it is their turn to get it; no sooner, no later. The homes are not prioritized; the people within those homes are prioritized.
11:17 - Why do you believe veterans should receive the vaccine first?
@10:43, Thank Christ!
@11:17 Why do you want to paralyze and/or kill vets?
@11:38, A Godsend
@11:40, Consider yourself lucky
@11:55. Because they are trying to get rid of your mother so they can fill her spot with another cash-loaded victim, the VA facility your dad is in gets federal funding for him, no patient, no money
@12:15, Amen! The one time that government fuckups work in our favor
@12:18, Yes, because most of our politicians know it’s a scam
@12:27 “How dare them thar government deny me muh paralysis!!
@12:44. “Warp” not wrap
@12.49, So, government handouts via actual socialism are good now?
@12:56, We DID apparently protect them, by not injecting a paralysis inducing, DNA modifying, Bells Palsy-causing, aborted fetal cell containing, cancer-triggering load of israeli poison into them.
It’s not veterans in general, it’s the veterans nursing homes being left out of the long term care vaccination priority list
People are (and should be) put in rank order based on factors such as potential work-exposure and age, not whether they served in the military. That notion is preposterous.
Read the post. This isn’t about order of vaccination. It is about a long term care system being overlooked in the vaccine rollout.
7:54 - But several of the posters are jumping up and down claiming veterans should go first. Try to keep up with the entire conversation. It's not difficult.
This is an absurd twisting of the presentation of the facts.
And "vets" are due some priority? The whole country seems to be lining up to be classified as the "most entitled". Veteran groups have perfected the guise.
The above posts suggesting veterans should be at the head of the line, are indeed about the order of vaccination. Nobody should be placed in line because of a job previously held.
This is not a VA issue. This is a State issue for State Veterans Home which are actually not affiliated with the VA System.
"I find the VA doesn't do anything unless you raise Hell & embarrass them. They talk a good talk but no action. Double Shame! Next election this needs to be a topic of discussion. I'm sure it will." Being a Vet and past VAMC employee (retired after 30 years service) I will say that topics about the VA are always brought up for and during elections, but never/rarely acted on. This issue is a state issue and actually not related to the VA itself. These are MS State Veteran Homes run by the state, not the VA proper.
Actually the VA hospital is giving vaccine to its patients as of last week.
@9:00 am.
All skilled nursing facilities were to be vaccinated in phase 1.
Veterans homes are a skilled nursing facility.
Veterans homes were not vaccinated in phase one.
We are sorry your girlfriend left you for a combat vet. Sucks to your assmar
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