Northland schools select which employees will receive first vaccine allocations
Appointments for people aged 65 and older at the Mountain Iron vaccine site filled up shortly after registration opened. Registration will open again at noon next Tuesday. Written By: Andee Erickson | ×
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine at St. Luke s hospital in Duluth. (Clint Austin / 2020 file / News Tribune)
School leaders across the state and region were tasked Monday with identifying which employees should receive the first round of limited COVID-19 vaccines set aside for school staff.
The state allocated nearly 300 vaccine series to schools in the seven-county region of Northeastern Minnesota this week as part of its new community vaccine clinic program, according to a state document. The program consists of nine pilot sites across the state that will begin vaccinating both child care and school workers, as well as people ages 65 and older, later th