1 in 3 nursing home residents haven’t had COVID-19 booster, AARP says 

Thirty-six percent of U.S. nursing home residents and 64 percent of staffers had not received a COVID-19 booster as of late February, an AARP analysis published March 17 found.

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Some states had even lower booster rates than the national average. Less than half of nursing home residents were boosted in Arizona, Florida and Nevada. Less than a quarter of workers were boosted in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee.

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