Surprise, surprise. After Biden is inaugurated, the settled science changes.
SEATTLE — The schools chief in Washington is pushing for teachers to get vaccinated for the coronavirus when it’s their turn but also insisting they get back to classrooms immediately, shot or not.
“The bottom line is a vaccine is a tremendous safety net but it is never the thing that is going to create the perfect scenario,” said Chris Reykdal, superintendent of public instruction. “Our schools are safe today.”
Reykdal on Friday announced a partnership with Kaiser Permanente to offer vaccinations to the state’s 143,000 public school employees and 12,000 private school employees.
The health care company and medical provider is pledging to open its doors to all educators and school employees in the state when each of them become individually eligible under the state’s vaccine rollout.Currently, that includes people who are at least 65 — or 50 and older in a multigenerational household — as well as health care workers, first responders and those who live or work in long-term care facilities.
AP