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Two Motion Picture Home Staffers Died From COVID Just Before Vaccines Arrived
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variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media WriterTwo employees of the Motion Picture Television Fund senior home died of COVID-19 last month, shortly before vaccines were made available to staff and residents.Max Alvarado, 42, and Francisco Castaneda, 54, were both longtime employees of the facility, according to remembrances posted on the MPTF Facebook page.Over the course of the pandemic, 119 staffers have been infected, but Alvarado and Castaneda were the first employees to die of it.
They were each infected in December, and their deaths came just as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were being distributed to the home.About 95% of the residents have now been vaccinated, along with about 88-90% of the staff, said Bob Beitcher, the president and CEO of the.
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