Vaccines Go Mobile to Keep Seniors From Slipping Through the Cracks

News-Medical is reporting that a mobile "strike team" is bringing vaccines to some of Northern California's most vulnerable residents. Formed a few weeks back, the team of county nurses and nonprofit workers is targeting Contra Costa County residents who are eligible for COVID-19 vaccines but have been left out: residents of small assisted-living communities that have yet to be visited by CVS or Walgreens and people who live in low-income senior housing. As California's vaccination plan moves past long-term care communities and on to the next group, deploying mobile units will help prevent eligible people in smaller facilities from being left behind, contends Dr. Mike Wasserman, past president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine. He adds, "The assisted living side has been our greatest tragedy. It's February. We're vaccinating others already and we haven't finished vaccinating those who need it most."