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The simple reason West Virginia leads the nation in vaccinating nursing home residents

  • Written by Tinglong Dai, Associate Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
imageBy mid-January, only about a quarter of the COVID-19 vaccines distributed for U.S. nursing homes through the federal program had reached people's arms. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

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