Nearly 200 Bend Senior HS students receive COVID-19 vaccines at first clinic, despite protests by opponents
(Update: Adding video, comments)
One critic says vaccine is sterilization
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) Early Thursday morning, a group of about 50 protesters gathered outside Bend Senior High School to voice their concerns at the first of several COVID-19 vaccination clinics being held at high schools around Central Oregon. But nearly 200 students received the shots anyway, officials said.
Starting Thursday, youth 16 and older, which is considered one of the fastest-growing COVID-19 positive age groups in the state, will be able to receive their vaccine for free.
(Update: Adding video, superintendent, school board comments) We have a lot of kids at home right now
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) The Bend-La Pine School Board met Tuesday night to discuss the status of school reopening and reflected many of the questions and tension seen across the community as COVID-19 case numbers rise and Deschutes County returns to the Extreme Risk category..
Interim Superintendent Lora Nordquist addressed the issue with the board. I mean my feeling is, if our case counts don t start going down fairly soon, we might need to look at a Plan B, Nordquist said. I m not quite sure what that is, but we have a lot of kids at home right now.