The Johns Hopkins eSchool+ Initiative launches dashboard of state-by-state policies and status
By
Jamie Smith
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Published
March 9, 2021
Even as President Joe Biden this week urged states to prioritize teachers for vaccinations, an analysis conducted with Johns Hopkins University's teacher vaccination tracker, launched Thursday, shows no correlation between states' school reopening status and the ability for teachers to get vaccinated against COVID-19. And no states are reporting the percentage of teachers and school staff that have been vaccinated.
"There is an accumulating body of scientific evidence that should be reassuring the public that kids can be brought back to school safely when appropriate mitigation measures are in place and community transmission is low. Right now, there is a massive disconnect between where schools are open and whether or not teachers have been prioritized for vaccination," says Megan Collins, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions, who helped create the new eSchool+ Teacher & School Staff COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard, which provides state-by-state information on school reopening status, teacher vaccination policies, and other vital data.