ABC News: Even as Nursing Homes Start Receiving Vaccine, Vulnerable Residents Face Hurdles (December 17, 2020)

For many of the nation’s elderly nursing home residents, the arrival Wednesday of the coronavirus vaccine represents the first glimmer of hope following a long, painful year — but experts say significant hurdles still stand in the way of inoculating the entire vulnerable population. Eric Carlson, a long-term care expert with the advocacy group Justice in Aging, said he believes that the coronavirus vaccine is the only way to return to a more normal and open life. “More than virtually any other group, nursing facility residents have been battered by this year of COVID,” Carlson said. “The deaths and illnesses have been devastating, and even the best-case scenario has seen residents isolated from family and friends for months and months.”