El Paso County receives 300 Moderna vaccines
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) Only a week has passed since El Paso County received its first shipment of the Pfzizer vaccine. On Tuesday, the county health department announced it has now received 300 vaccines from Moderna.
The El Paso County Health Department is preparing to quickly distribute the latest shipment of COVID-19 vaccines. These vaccines will be taken to a local Safeway for more healthcare workers to be vaccinated.
The state is currently in Phase 1A of vaccinations, in which healthcare workers who have direct contact with COVID-19 patients for longer periods of time are prioritized for the vaccine. Elderly in long-term care facilities are also the first to gain access to the vaccine.
District 20 teacher shares hopes and concerns for spring semester
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) Academy District 20 just released plans for high school and middle school students to return to hybrid learning come January 2021.
Just like the fall 2020 semester, students are not required to go to school in-person.
Aly Johnson, a business and marketing teacher at Air Academy High School, said she is more than ready to have her students back in the classroom. Her biggest concern is if they ll show. When we returned in the fall, we had this big excitement of our kids are coming back! said Johnson. A lot of them came back in the beginning, but as the semester went on, it dwindled down to some of us having only one student in person.”