New York's teachers are eligible for vaccines - if they can get an appointment
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Teachers and others trying to use a state portal to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine reported confusion over the system after it launched Monday. In this photograph, people get vaccinated at a pilot drive-in vaccination pod administered by the Albany County sheriff's department on Sunday. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
COVID-19 vaccinations for teachers should decrease the number of interruptions to in-school learning, but first, they must get through the state's buggy enrollment process.
Teachers, school administrators, bus drivers, school food service workers, day care staff, and in-person college instructors all became eligible for the shots on Monday as part of phase "1b" in New York's vaccine distribution schedule.