The Biden administration on Thursday announced new plans to allocate the Covid-19 vaccine to dialysis centers across the country. This new partnership with dialysis clinics is an attempt to vaccinate people who receive dialysis, as well as outpatient health care workers in dialysis clinics.
U.S. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. In a written statement issued Thursday, Rochelle Valensky praised the partnership, saying the CDC has supported the vaccination of most dialysis patients by partnering with dialysis provider organizations. And health care personnel.
“This effort is another important step in ensuring that vaccines reach medically weak communities and that they continue to prolong our efforts to end the equity covid-1p epidemic,” Valensky said in a statement.
Dialysis is used to treat people with kidney failure, affecting more than half a million people in the United States, and most people go to dialysis centers for treatment.
“Each year, more than 50,000,000 people receive regular dialysis treatment through the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program. The efforts of the Dialysis Partners will administer the COVID-19 vaccine to their patients and staff in clinics participating in the Medicare program.” Additionally, dialysis facilities have a “long-term” experience of administering vaccinations such as flu and hepatitis B shots.
Valensky added that people with dialysis often get serious consequences when they contract Kovid-19, half are hospitalized and 20% to 30% die.
“Furthermore, chronic kidney disease at an advanced stage disproportionately affects ethnic and racial minorities, including people of African American, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska descent.” “Diocese clinics provide a reliable innovative way to help COVID-19 vaccines reach the disproportionate number of people affected by the COVID-19 epidemic.”
In response, the nonprofit American Kidney Fund released a statement Thursday praising the White House’s decision to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine to dialysis centers. The American Society of Nephrology nephrology tweeted a link to the announcement of the White House dialysis program, calling it “big news.”
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