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In late March, New York’s public high schools reopened for in-person instruction. Elementary schools have been offering some in-person instruction since December, middle schools since February. The country’s largest school district has managed to provide more in-school hours than many other districts that might have seemed better equipped for the task. But, nearly three months after vaccines became available to teachers, fewer than half around sixty-five thousand, out of approximately a hundred and forty-seven thousand Department of Education employees have received at least a first shot of the vaccine.
For much of the past year, in-school transmission of the coronavirus has not been of particular concern to infectious-disease specialists. Data seemed to show that children become infected at a relatively low rate. That may be changing, however, with the advent of more infectious variants of the virus, as Peter Hotez, a pediatric microbiologist and vac
“Even after one dose there seems to be increasing levels of protection, but that protection is further enhanced after the second dose,” said Omer.
The data comes from a new CDC study this week that tracked nearly 4,000 US healthcare workers and first responders between doses of the M-RNA vaccines. They were 80% effective after the first dose and 90% after the second.
“It appears the vaccinations are also protecting against asymptomatic infection which is also very important,” said Dr. Manisha Juthani of the Yale School of Medicine. She says that’s because it shows the vaccine is working against unknown cases of COVID-19.