Teachers, child care staff nationwide can now sign up for vaccine shots
Source: ABC News
Teachers and child care staff are now being offered vaccine appointments at some 9,000 pharmacy locations nationwide, even if their state hasn’t declared them eligible yet.
The push to get every educator their first vaccine dose this month is part of President Joe Biden’s latest directive aimed at prying open classrooms by using a federally run program that ships doses directly to pharmacies.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which manages the program, announced the effort on its website. And as of Wednesday morning, CVS – one of the pharmacies participating in the program – had already updated its website to note that “teachers K-12 and child care workers” were now eligible to sign up for a vaccine shot in every state.
“If you're a teacher, if you're a childcare worker, if you're a staff worker, if you're a bus driver in a school, you are eligible to go to that pharmacy and get your vaccine. And we want all teachers to have at least one vaccination the month of March,” David Kessler, a senior White House adviser, told MSNBC.
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