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Most Washington teachers will currently have to wait weeks before becoming eligible. Author: Casey Decker Updated: 10:45 PM PST February 7, 2021
Even as teachers in neighboring Idaho and Oregon are being vaccinated, in Washington most educators currently will have to wait weeks or even months before they ll become eligible.
At the moment, only seniors and healthcare workers qualify to get the shot. Teachers, and several leading lawmakers, have been pushing for that to change.
The first push from lawmakers came in mid-January, with a bipartisan letter to the governor urging a change in the phases.
At the time, school employees (along with many other kinds of critical workers) were divided up between those over 50 and those under 50. The difference between that division was a several months wait for the shot. Republican and Democratic leaders on both the Senate and House education committees thought that didn t make much sense.