When will teachers get vaccinated? Some already have but most are nervously waiting. Valerie Strauss © Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP/Getty Images A health-care worker holds up a Pfizer-BioNtech coronavirus vaccine at Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center in Miami on Dec. 30, 2020. A small number of teachers and school nurses in a few states have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, but most are still waiting amid a stumbling rollout of the vaccine across the country. Even as a new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus has been confirmed in some U.S. states and a few thousand people are dying from covid-19 each day, officials in many districts are making plans to reopen schools soon and teachers are coming under increasing pressure to return to classrooms.
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A new survey released by the Connecticut Education Association (C.E.A) and Connecticut s chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (C.T. A.F.T.) is shedding light on some of the big concerns from teachers.
The report was compromised of different shortcomings educators said they experienced and issues inside of the classrooms.
Lack of adequate ventilation systems, transparency and consistency in COVID-19 reporting, contact tracing and safety protocols were some of the issues educators listed as their top concerns.
According to the survey, nearly 60 percent of teachers said they are worried about getting COVID-19 at work. Sixty percent said schools are not the safest place for kids right now.