Parents and students ambled in and out of a school gym in South Nashville Friday though where Metro Nashville Public Schools, in partnership with the Metro Health Department, Neighborhood Health and Nashville Diaper Connection, hosted a vaccine clinic.
Viviana Sandoval brought her son, Orlando Torres, 13, to the McMurray Middle School Friday. The middle schooler needed to receive the required TDAP (tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis) vaccine for seventh grade but he also opted in for the COVID-19 vaccine as well.
Torres, like most Metro Nashville students, spent most of the school year learning remotely. Once schools reopened, Torres was again sent home to quarantine after a classmate tested positive for COVID-19.
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Nashville Tennessean
The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean. If the health department must issue any information about vaccines, staff are instructed to strip the agency logo off the documents.
The health department will also stop all COVID-19 vaccine events on school property, despite holding at least one such event this month. The decisions to end vaccine outreach and school events come directly from Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey, the internal report states.
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