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The arrival of COVID vaccines carries extra significance for the city’s 25,000 paraprofessionals, who died at a rate four times higher than their Department of Education colleagues last spring.
The group includes teachers, administrators, guidance counselors and social workers, an Education Department spokeswoman said. The tally includes only those who were inoculated at city-run vaccination sites.
The two centers — one at the Bathgate Contract Postal Station in the Bronx, the other at Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park — are set up to administer 2,000 doses per day.