January 20, 2021 – Global News
Seniors living independently feel ‘forgotten’ as others prioritized for COVID-19 vaccines
By Rachel Gilmore
Dr. Samir Sinha’s phone rang on Saturday, as he said it often does these days. This time, the patient calling was a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. “[He] called me on Saturday begging me, begging me to find him a vaccine sooner rather than later. He’s been locked in his house for an entire year,” Sinha, who serves as the director of health policy research at the NIA.