{"id":9412,"date":"2021-07-26T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/07\/26\/unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-federal-investigation-of-mesa-county-nursing-home-cases-deaths\/135404\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:07:17","slug":"unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-federal-investigation-of-mesa-county-nursing-home-cases-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-federal-investigation-of-mesa-county-nursing-home-cases-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Unvaccinated staff eyed in federal investigation of Mesa County nursing home cases, deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-federal-investigation-of-mesa-county-nursing-home-cases-deaths\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Virus_Outbreak_10713-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-federal-investigation-of-mesa-county-nursing-home-cases-deaths.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-federal-investigation-of-mesa-county-nursing-home-cases-deaths-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/07\/26\/unvaccinated-staff-eyed-in-federal-investigation-of-mesa-county-nursing-home-cases-deaths\/135404\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Dearen and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of facilities in the Grand Junction area raises concerns among public health doctors that successes in protecting vulnerable elders with vaccines could be in peril as the more aggressive delta variant spreads across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/07\/26\/mesa-county-covid-cdc-investiagtion\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dearen and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press WASHINGTON \u2014 Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2435,6892,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2436,6893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}