When the head of WTU downplays the importance of teachers getting vaccinated, you know the vaccination rate among teachers is going to be low.

Anonymous wrote:If a teacher is in a room with 30 unvaccinated students, why does it matter if a teacher is vaccinated?

Truly this is one of the more idiotic statements I have read today.

Anonymous wrote:If a teacher is in a room with 30 unvaccinated students, why does it matter if a teacher is vaccinated?

Is this a serious question? Obviously the unvaccinated teacher is a risk to those students. Adults are more likely to be the source of infection for young kids than vice versa.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.

If they ask in order to aggregate, the individual data would be somewhere and vulnerable to inappropriate disclosure.

Lots of your data is somewhere and “vulnerable” to disclosure. This is hardly an argument against DCPS collecting it.

Only those who refuse to get vaccinated would be this paranoid about this.

Feel like I’ve posted this a few times before but if we need to see it again…DCPS and the WTU are just working out the best process to collect this data and it will be released. The WTU has no issue with this information being aggregated

It sure is taking a long time though. It's that delay that is making people suspect things.

Anonymous wrote:If a teacher is in a room with 30 unvaccinated students, why does it matter if a teacher is vaccinated?

*sigh.* because adults are major vectors of bringing covid into schools. and because the health of teachers was the primary rationale for closing schools. so obviously, on a policy level, it's crucial.

"Findings from several studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission among students is relatively rare, particularly when prevention strategies are in place. An Australian study of 39 COVID-19 cases among 32 students and seven staff traced contacts across 28 schools and six early childhood centers and found only 33 secondary positive cases (28 students and five staff members) out of 3,439 close child contacts and 385 close staff contacts.58, 59 Several contact tracing studies have found limited student-to-student transmission in schools.47, 54, 60, 61 A study of factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection among children and adolescents in Mississippi found that school attendance was not associated with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result. However, close contacts with persons with COVID-19, attending gatherings, and having visitors in the home were associated with SARS-CoV-2 infections among children and adolescents.26 The evidence to date suggests that staff-to-student and student-to-student transmission are not the primary means of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 among infected children. Several studies have also concluded that students are not the primary sources of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 among adults in school setting.47, 54, 59"

If a teacher is in a room with 30 unvaccinated students, why does it matter if a teacher is vaccinated?

Anonymous wrote:The whole "but muh privaceeee!" argument shows an amazing lack of altruism during a public health crisis in which how everyone behaves impacts whether society functions and whether more people die.

My employer asked if I was vaccinated. I answered. I'm not worried about it. They asked because they wanted an understanding of how many people needed help obtaining a vaccine, and also to understand levels of relative safety in the building (so that more or less risk mitigation would have to be adopted).

Vaccination status = "my medical record."

oops, I meant "vaccination status =/= my medical record"

The whole "but muh privaceeee!" argument shows an amazing lack of altruism during a public health crisis in which how everyone behaves impacts whether society functions and whether more people die.

My employer asked if I was vaccinated. I answered. I'm not worried about it. They asked because they wanted an understanding of how many people needed help obtaining a vaccine, and also to understand levels of relative safety in the building (so that more or less risk mitigation would have to be adopted).

Vaccination status = "my medical record."

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.

If they ask in order to aggregate, the individual data would be somewhere and vulnerable to inappropriate disclosure.

Lots of your data is somewhere and “vulnerable” to disclosure. This is hardly an argument against DCPS collecting it.

Only those who refuse to get vaccinated would be this paranoid about this.

I’m vaccinated. I don’t trust my employer with my health info. I am not associated with DCPS or WTU.

If you are vaccinated it’s really weird that you would worry about this. It’s not like this is some personal health issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.

If they ask in order to aggregate, the individual data would be somewhere and vulnerable to inappropriate disclosure.

Why are teachers especially protected? Other professional groups are providing vaccination status. And of course CHILDREN have to provide their vaccination status to schools. My kid has an IEP and there is so much individual informtation on him. This is information about a *vaccine* not about some kind of invasive sensitive issue. Unless you consider being anti-vax to be so sensitive and worth of protection?

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.

If they ask in order to aggregate, the individual data would be somewhere and vulnerable to inappropriate disclosure.

Lots of your data is somewhere and “vulnerable” to disclosure. This is hardly an argument against DCPS collecting it.

Only those who refuse to get vaccinated would be this paranoid about this.

I’m vaccinated. I don’t trust my employer with my health info. I am not associated with DCPS or WTU.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.

If they ask in order to aggregate, the individual data would be somewhere and vulnerable to inappropriate disclosure.

Lots of your data is somewhere and “vulnerable” to disclosure. This is hardly an argument against DCPS collecting it.

Only those who refuse to get vaccinated would be this paranoid about this.

Feel like I’ve posted this a few times before but if we need to see it again…DCPS and the WTU are just working out the best process to collect this data and it will be released. The WTU has no issue with this information being aggregated

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.

If they ask in order to aggregate, the individual data would be somewhere and vulnerable to inappropriate disclosure.

Lots of your data is somewhere and “vulnerable” to disclosure. This is hardly an argument against DCPS collecting it.

Only those who refuse to get vaccinated would be this paranoid about this.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.

If they ask in order to aggregate, the individual data would be somewhere and vulnerable to inappropriate disclosure.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the data on teacher vaccinations? Other government employees, such as the police department, have reported their vaccination rates. National teachers unions including the NEA have also published their data. Why don’t we have vaccination rates among DC teachers?

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I'm so tired of teachers acting like they have special privacy rights/concerns.

Maybe they are just acting like they have regular privacy rights. Few employers are in a position to ask if you are vaccinated and I don’t think any can release that info to the public without your permission.

Of course employers can ask, and many do. And nobody is asking DCPS to provide that information about individual teachers.