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ANCHORAGE (AP) â Teachers are among the groups urging state officials to speed up their eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine after Alaska s allocation for the month quickly depleted.
Several educators urged the state s vaccine allocation advisory committee on Monday to move teachers into immediate vaccine status, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
In-person learning is scheduled to begin next week in the Anchorage School District for K-2 and special education classes through sixth grade.
The state s vaccination program began in mid-December with frontline hospital workers and long-term care centers before expanding to include other health workers.
The next approved group includes prison inmates, corrections officers and homeless shelter residents. The group also encompasses frontline essential workers 50 and older including teachers, emergency responders and seafood industry workers.
Teachers among groups vying to move up in Alaska virus line
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jan 13, 2021 at 9:14 am EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Teachers are among the groups urging state officials to speed up their eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine after Alaska’s allocation for the month quickly depleted.
Several educators urged the state’s vaccine allocation advisory committee on Monday to move teachers into “immediate” vaccine status, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
In-person learning is scheduled to begin next week in the Anchorage School District for K-2 and special education classes through sixth grade.
The state’s vaccination program began in mid-December with frontline hospital workers and long-term care centres before expanding to include other health workers.
Print article Numerous industry sectors and groups, including teachers, are urging state officials to move up their eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine even as it became clear Alaska’s allocation for the month is all but used up. During a hearing Monday, several educators and the president of the Anchorage teachers union urged the state’s vaccine allocation committee to move teachers into “immediate” vaccine status before in-person learning begins for K-2 and special education classes through sixth grade at the Anchorage School District in about a week. Representatives of the state’s trucking and shipping industries asked to be bumped up as well. Warehousemen and truck drivers in the Lower 48 are seeing 20% to 25% workforce reductions due to the effects of the virus, Matson vice president Bal Dreyfus told the committee during the hearing, held remotely via Zoom.