As a natural response to the convoluted messaging, we feel on shaky moral ground.
“It starts to introduce a level of questioning: ‘What confidence should I have that the rules are fair? Even if I’m technically eligible, elsewhere I wouldn’t be.’ It adds to the undermining of people’s confidence,” she said.
At the end of the day, she said, if you’re eligible under the rules of where you live, get the vaccine.
“I don’t think you should feel guilty about it,” Faden said.
There are also psychological factors that play into our discomfort with any kind of covid-19 privilege: a sense of survivor’s guilt, according to psychiatrist and University of Maryland Medical School professor Kim Gordon.
There’s no correlation between states’ school reopening status and the ability of teachers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a new analysis finds.
Even as President Joe Biden this week urged states to prioritize teachers for vaccinations, an analysis conducted with Johns Hopkins University’s teacher vaccination tracker finds that no states are reporting the percentage of teachers and school staff that have been vaccinated.
“There is an accumulating body of scientific evidence that should be reassuring the public that kids can be brought back to school safely when appropriate mitigation measures are in place and community transmission is low. Right now, there is a massive disconnect between where schools are open and whether or not teachers have been prioritized for vaccination,” says Megan Collins, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions, who helped create the new eSchool+ Teacher & School Staff COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard, which
The Johns Hopkins eSchool+ Initiative launches dashboard of state-by-state policies and status By Jamie Smith / Published March 9, 2021
Even as President Joe Biden this week urged states to prioritize teachers for vaccinations, an analysis conducted with Johns Hopkins University s teacher vaccination tracker, launched Thursday, shows no correlation between states school reopening status and the ability for teachers to get vaccinated against COVID-19. And no states are reporting the percentage of teachers and school staff that have been vaccinated. There is an accumulating body of scientific evidence that should be reassuring the public that kids can be brought back to school safely when appropriate mitigation measures are in place and community transmission is low. Right now, there is a massive disconnect between where schools are open and whether or not teachers have been prioritized for vaccination, says Megan Collins, co-director of
It is legal and ethical for employers to ask about coronavirus vaccinations. And, depending on the job, some can require workers to get the vaccine, experts say.
People who show up to Maryland’s mass coronavirus vaccination clinics will not be turned away for lack of documentation or proof of eligibility a possible benefit for some of the state’s most at-risk residents, but also for those exploiting the system, medical ethicists, logistics experts and lawmakers say.