{"id":115308,"date":"2021-02-25T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=115308"},"modified":"2021-02-25T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:52:10","slug":"state-accelerates-access-to-covid-vaccines-for-education-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=115308","title":{"rendered":"State Accelerates Access to COVID Vaccines for Education Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…Following last week\u2019s announcement by Governor Gavin Newsom that, beginning March 1, at least 10 percent of vaccine supply would be dedicated to education workers \u2013 including teachers, paraprofessionals, bus drivers, child care workers and site-based administrators \u2013 the state outlined its plan<\/a>\u00a0to execute on the Governor\u2019s commitment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe education professionals who nurture and support our children deserve to be and have been prioritized for vaccines, and I am proud to accelerate those efforts in all 58 counties,\u201d said Governor Newsom. \u201cOur top priority is getting students back in the classroom as safely and quickly as possible, and the expanded access to vaccines will build on the momentum and confidence that we can do so with urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just over half of states currently authorize vaccines for education workers. California was among the first to do so, and vaccine prioritization has been a\u00a0core component<\/a>\u00a0of the Safe Schools for All Plan since December. Counties have been authorized to vaccinate education workers based on supply since January\u00a0and, at the state\u2019s encouragement, at least 35 counties are actively vaccinating education workers.\u00a0Since the Governor\u2019s announced commitment, several counties have announced plans to expedite access starting March 1, including Los Angeles and Fresno counties.<\/p>\n

County and local leadership, including from county offices of education, is foundational. The state plan serves to supplement, not supplant, those efforts. To ensure communities throughout the state are prioritizing education workers, the state will true up local efforts to the 10 percent minimum through dedicated access to Myturn.ca.gov \u2013 education workers will receive up to 75,000 single-use codes statewide to make an appointment to be vaccinated. The state is also prioritizing education workers for vaccination through dedicated mobile units and vaccine drives coordinated through the state-federal vaccination sites at California State University, Los Angeles and the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum. The Oakland and Los Angeles sites will conduct two dedicated vaccine drives per week for the next two weeks for education workers.<\/p>\n

Vaccines will be directed to counties and school communities weighted by equity, including the proportion of students from low-income families, English learners and homeless youth. In turn, education workers will qualify for vaccine prioritization based on occupational health exposure \u2013 whether they are currently reporting or will imminently report in person.<\/p>\n

For more information about safe returns to in-person instruction, please visit\u00a0schools.covid19.ca.gov.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sacramento, CA…Following last week\u2019s announcement by Governor Gavin Newsom that, beginning March 1, at least 10 percent of vaccine supply would be dedicated to education workers \u2013 including teachers, paraprofessionals, bus drivers, child care workers and site-based administrators \u2013 the state outlined its plan\u00a0to execute on the Governor\u2019s commitment. \u201cThe education professionals who nurture and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,5,33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-featured","category-government","category-health-fitness","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gavinsigning-400x250-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}