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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did Howard vaccinate all its teachers?[/quote]

Nope.  I live in Howard County.  The teachers are in phase 1B, which means they are now eligible, but it is almost impossible to find places that both have open appointments and have supply.  I have one friend who is a teacher married to a teacher.  She spent her day off checking various places refreshing every 20-30 minutes or so.  In the late afternoon, a friend passed her a new link and she managed to find one cancellation, but had to literally head out the door within a few minutes to make it there for the last-minute cancellation.  She got home and checked the link and she found one more last minute cancellation and made her husband drop what he was doing and head over and grab the vaccination.  And she had been checking daily since the 18th multiple times per day.

On her post, there were over a dozen other teachers saying that they were still trying to find a place to get a vaccination.  I know teachers in 5 counties and the city of Baltimore and despite them being phase 1B, less than 10% of them have actually been able to find a vaccination.  Hopefully February will get better, but right now, so many of the shots are going to hospitals who are prioritizing their high risk patients over others.  The places that are open for the general public 1A/1B eligible cannot handle the volume of requests they are getting.  They are essentially down to administering the tests that they get within a day or two of when they get them and then waiting for the next shipment.[/quote]

You state this as if teachers are somehow special. Everyone in 1B are struggling to find vaccines. Most are already back to work without being vaccinated or the elderly who are at a much higher risk of death from Covid19 than a teacher who may be in their 30s to late 50s. Somehow, all of those essential workers who are unvaccinated got up every morning for work from March until now and went - to work.

I realize it’s a tough situation but it’s in now way a slight against teachers or something that should be addressed of “fixed”. If they are boosted up in priority as a group, it directly impacts those working now at great risk for catching covid or worse, the elderly who may die at a faster rate.

We all need to wear our masks, wash our hands and wait for our turn in line for a vaccine. Group 1b IS a prioritized group.

And tell Hogan that the supply of vaccine and the rollout stinks. Don’t complain that no one has offered to not make you return to work or somehow vaccinate you first. There are so many other groups which deserve the same concern who are doing their best to patiently wait because we know it’s important to and they right thing to do for those who are at more risk. [/quote]

I think that employees returning to work in spaces where they have high exposure to a lot of people without adequate social distancing (including teachers) need to be prioritized over the seniors who are over 75 or over 65, and not in nursing homes.  I think allowing seniors who are not working and at home to take appointments from those who have to return to public work is poor management.

When you are asking people to return to work in public indoor spaces where they have higher exposure to large groups of people, you need to prioritize them to get their vaccines.  I think that if they were going to require return to school that the governor should have deferred the seniors 75 and over who were not in nursing homes from phase 1B to phase 1C so that teachers (and other employees returning to work in public interacting positions) could be prioritized.

I don't think that teachers are more special than other employees, but I think that after prioritizing first responders and medical staff, that the governor needed to place a higher priority on those who work in grocery stores, teachers and other public interacting jobs.[/quote]

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