Virginia Beach City Public Schools to hold vaccine clinics
The clinics begin May 18 and will offer first-dose Pfizer shots. Vaccines will be available for both in-person learning as well as virtual learning students.
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Parents will have to sign a consent form for their children. There will be a big push over the next few weeks to try and do school-based vaccination, to help adolescents understand the value of the vaccine for them, Dr. Avula said. It s going to be a little bit of a tough sell in some regards because young people just don t get that sick with COVID, the vast majority of kids who get COVID have really mild disease or even asymptomatic disease.
CHKD Medical Group Director Dr. Douglas Mitchell said it s important for parents to get their kids immunized because children can still become hosts for COVID-19 and spread the virus to others.
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Some 7th through 12th graders will be able to go to school four days a week. Author: Angelo Vargas Updated: 6:36 PM EDT April 14, 2021
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Virginia Beach City Public Schools is increasing the number of days middle and high school students will have in-person instruction.
Some 7th through 12 graders will spend less time attending school at home on their laptops and more time in a classroom.
A little bit of normalcy begins on April 27, 2021, for some students and they will be able to go to school four days a week.
“I know they are going back to school, thank God,” said Virginia Beach parent Christine Caalim.