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Southwestern Central School officials approved an agreement with the county to serve as a COVID-19 vaccination site if needed.
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The Southwestern Central School Board approved an agreement with Chautauqua County on Tuesday night to serve as a COVID-19 vaccination site if needed.
The contingent agreement with the county comes as educators begin to receive the coronavirus vaccination under the state’s 1b population that began receiving vaccinations earlier this week.
“We are in 1b and not all of 1a has gotten the first dose of the vaccine yet,” the district’s superintendent, Maureen Donahue, said during a board of education meeting. “When they disbursed the vaccine, they would have and open it up and you would have five hours to use those vials you had. If you had 40 appointments and only 35 people show up, you have five vials that are not getting used. Now they opened it up to 1b to utilize a lot of the vaccine.”