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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course it's more complicated than do you want to be vaccinated but the PP said "setting aside access issues." It's probably not feasible to get everyone who works at a school vaccinated before kids start coming back, but what about "you must be vaccinated by return to school in Fall 2021"?

FWIW--I have friends who teach at private schools and the administrations are aggressively working to get people vaccinated. Not that I'd expect BOE to do the same for MCPS employees....[/quote]

What does aggressively trying to get people vaccinated mean?  Do they have people frantically clicking on appointment websites to try to get people appointments?

I have trouble believing that private school administrators would have access to some special vaccine supply that would get around the issues relating to the difficult of finding appointments.[/quote]

NP here. Private school administrators are helping their staff navigate the registration process by keeping them up to date on what's happening when and where and sharing experiences and best practices. They fought hard to get a dedicated avenue for their staff to get vaccinations (vs playing the lottery with Giant, CVS, etc).  Now that Johns Hopkins is handling vaccinations for all educators, private schools are making sure their staff is registered with the Johns Hopkins system so that they actually receive the vaccination invitation when their number comes up. [b]As I understand it, if you are not already a Johns Hopkins patient, you have to set up an account. I wonder if anyone is explaining that to the public school teachers and staff?[/b] [/quote]

MCPS employees were told that JHU would notify us by email when it was our turn to either create a MyChart account and set up our appointment, or to log into our existing MyChart account and create our appointment. A few people I know did receive their vaccines through JHU, but most have had to scramble with everyone else in the state of Maryland to try to get at least one vaccine before having to report to school in person.

As for the MoCo Health department, we were also told a while back that some of use would receive emails from them about signing up for our appointment, but then the county changed their policy and decided to distribute only to people 75+. MCPS employees were told it would be at least 5 weeks before any employees would be eligible to be vaccinated by the county...and I think that was more than 5 weeks ago.

So yes, MCPS employees are well aware of the partnerships created to try to get vaccines to them! If JHU had been given more vaccines to distribute, so many of us wouldn't be having to drive hours to receive a vaccine, if we are lucky enough to find an appointment somewhere. 
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My MCPS DH teacher finally got an appointment and is driving to 6 Flags in Bowie tomorrow (and he is a Hopkins patient and has a MyChart.). Another one of his coworkers drove to Ocean City because she finally got an appt there. It's been a total trainwreck.[/quote]

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