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Child care workers will be offered COVID-19 vaccines under the state's plan to vaccinate public and private schoolteachers and educational support staffs.
The entire new supply of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 single-dose vaccine in Pennsylvania will be dedicated to schoolteachers and education support staffs, including bus drivers. Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday that the Pennsylvania National Guard will assist Intermediate Units in administering the first wave of 94,600 Johnson & Johnson doses set to arrive soon in the state. âOur Guard is the perfect group to run this,â said state Rep. Tim OâNeal, R-South Strabane Township, who joined Wolf Wednesday in making the announcement. Wolf said there are about 200,000 public- and privat...
Answers to questions about Pennsylvania's COVID-19 vaccine rollout for teachers.
Pennsylvania officials have released an outline of a plan to vaccinate teachers against COVID-19.Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam, Department of Education Acting Secretary Noe Ortega and PEMA Director Randy Padfield reviewed the plan at a media briefing on Thursday. The Wolf administration is working with Intermediate Units and other education partners to give the one-dose Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine to Pre-K through Grade 12 public and non-public school staff across Pennsylvania.Officials said IUs will work with school entities to identify individuals who are in...
Representatives from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the Departments of Health and Education announced further details on how the Joh...