Washington teachers, school employees move to head of the vaccine line — what’s next?
By Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times
Published: March 4, 2021, 11:40am
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Corinne Barrett was in the middle of grading assignments when a colleague messaged her: “It’s happening.”
Within hours of Gov. Jay Inslee’s Tuesday announcement that school employees and child-care workers could join the ranks of the vaccinated, Barrett, a P.E. and health teacher in the Bellevue School District, hatched a plan.
Before sunrise Wednesday, she was fifth in line outside a walk-in vaccine clinic operated by Sea Mar Community Health Centers in South Seattle. By 8 a.m., she had her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.