If teachers get vaccinated, schools in California should be 100% open, education professor says
By Allie Rasmus
Newsom pushes school reopening plans
Gov. Newsom pushes school reopening plans. Morgan Polikoff, University of Southern California Associate Professor of Education, said if teachers are vaccinated, schools should be open.
OAKLAND, Calif. - As pressure to reopen schools in California mounts and the debate over who should get vaccination priority continues to rage, at least one expert says that there is no excuse for teachers not to return to the classroom if they receive the double dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Let me just say categorically, if teachers are vaccinated, and a large number of adults are vaccinated, schools should be 100% open in the fall - without any excuses, Morgan Polikoff, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, told KTVU over the weekend.
I was in a coma for three months, I was almost dead.
Berry, who has diabetes, relies on a Walgreens miles away to get his weekly medication. He lives near Oakland s East 14th Street Business District, an area also considered a pharmacy desert. We don t have pharmacies in this district, said Oakland City Councilwoman Treva Reid. It s a huge disparity for us.
According to Cheryl Wisseh, a health scientist at UC Irvine s School of Pharmacy, It s a desert based on the fact, it s greater than one mile or more from a neighborhood.
Based on the population in Berry s zip code, it should have 4.6 retail pharmacies per 10,000 people when compared to the county s zip code average of 1.3 pharmacies.
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1of8Marian Sullivan (left) of San Francisco receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination from medical assistant Lori Viramontes (right) at the new COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Sutter Health in San Francisco on Thursday, January 14, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif. Sutter Health is only vaccinating seniors aged 75 and older and not yet vaccinating those seniors 65-74 years old.Lea Suzuki/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of8Nurse Stephanie Contreras (hands at right) shows Yvonne Gavre (left) of San Francisco the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination she is about to receive at the new COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Sutter Health in San Francisco on Thursday, January 14, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif. Sutter Health is only vaccinating seniors aged 75 and older and not yet vaccinating those seniors 65-74 years old.Lea Suzuki/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
With demand for the coronavirus vaccine vastly outpacing supply, California’s efforts to methodically plan who gets a vaccine and when are quickly being thrown out the window.
At Lompoc Valley Medical Center, officials had planned to give out 100 doses to people 75 and older on Wednesday, its first day of vaccinations. But word-of-mouth quickly traveled through the small city in Santa Barbara County and by day’s end 350 people had received a shot, many without the required appointment, hospital chief executive Steve Popkin said.
“Understandably, there was a lot of excitement among these members of our community,” he said in an email.