In Oregon, schools are reopening, but some students feel safer at home
Years of maintenance issues within Portland schools have brewed mistrust of safety measures for COVID-19.
A year after schools across Oregon closed down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Portland schools now are rushing to prepare classrooms for a return to in-person learning.
But not everyone is ready to go back to school.
Danny Cage, a sophomore at Grant High School, said as a student of color with underlying health issues, he doesn t feel safe attending school in person yet. I m high risk and I have people in my house who are high risk, the teen said. Even if I m not sick, it s not safe to bring that back to anyone in my house.
Georgia adds 3.3M to those eligible for COVID-19 vaccination
JEFF AMY and BEN NADLER, Associated Press
March 15, 2021
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A member of the Georgia National guard helps manage traffic at a COVID-19 mass vaccination site at the Delta Flight Museum, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Atlanta. The state has four sites located around Georgia.John Bazemore/AP
MACON, Ga. (AP) Georgia threw open the doors for COVID-19 vaccination to a majority of adults Monday, as the state seeks to improve its worst-in-the-nation share of the population that has been inoculated against the respiratory illness.
At the Macon State Farmers Market mass vaccination site, cars full of people waiting their turn for a shot formed a long but orderly line that stretched down the block and out onto a highway, partially blocking a lane of traffic.