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CVS Starts Giving Free COVID-19 Vaccinations to Educators of All Ages PUBLISHED 5:48 PM ET Mar. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED March 4, 2021 @5:48 PM
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. As part of the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, CVS is now offering the COVID-19 vaccine to K-12 educators and staff, regardless of age.
What You Need To Know
New federal rules allow teachers and educational staff of all ages to get a COVID-19 vaccine
They make child care workers eligible for the vaccine
24 CVS pharmacies in Florida are offering COVID-19 vaccines to teachers for free
The Daytona Beach CVS location and one in Palm Coast are already offering the free vaccines to educators.
Which States Do Better, Worse at Giving COVID-19 Shots
A senior citizen gets a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Feb. 13 at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center in Kanawha County, West Virginia. (Photo: Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket/ Getty Images)
North Dakota and New Mexico have outperformed most other states in getting needles into arms, using about 96% of their allotments of COVID-19 vaccines for residents, The Daily Signal has learned.
At the other extreme, Tennessee, the District of Columbia, and Alabama each is at or below 70% use of the vaccine doses received.
Using data as of March 1 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Heritage Foundation compiled a ranking and an overview. The aim: to show how consistent the states and the nation’s capital have been in staying above or below the national median in administering two currently available COVID-19 vaccines.
The announcements came Wednesday via bus radios and classroom intercoms.
Clara Bepe, an economics teacher at Mishawaka High School, had to check in with a neighboring teacher when she saw the news.
âOh my goodness, is this real?â she asked, before running back to her classroom to set up a self-paced lesson for her students who were e-learning that day.
Bepe, like hundreds of other school staff members across Michiana this week, was finally being called up for her turn to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
âIt was one of those thrilling moments,â Bepe said. âWe were processing that as we were just driving: Are we really going to get it? Are they going to have enough?â