Educators react to governorâs announcement regarding teacher vaccine eligibility
Educators react to governorâs announcement regarding teacher vaccine eligibility By Alex Giles | February 10, 2021 at 9:24 PM EST - Updated February 10 at 11:15 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Wednesday afternoon that people working in education will soon be eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Cooper said individuals working in education and childcare will be eligible to get the vaccine starting Wednesday, February 24.
âEducators will be the first members of Group 3 to be eligible to receive this vaccine as frontline essential workers,â said Cooper.
WBTV spoke with two different educators Wednesday night, asking each about the governorâs announcement.
Both Pace, 62, and Eudy were residents of the facility.
First responders were called to Open Fields Assisted Living at 3210 Western Blvd. on April 5, 2018, about an unresponsive resident and found Eudy dead.
Tarboro police officers responded in a medical assist role.
When officers arrived at the scene, they became suspicious of the circumstances and began processing the room for potential evidence and requested an autopsy, according to a post on the Tarboro Police Departmentâs Facebook page.
The following day, the police department was notified that Eudy had sustained injuries consistent with manual strangulation.
According to her death certificate, Eudy had been asphyxiated and suffered traumatic injuries to her neck.