Wisconsin teachers receiving vaccines on first day of eligibility feel relief, but others may have weeks to wait Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Teachers and child care workers talk about getting the COVID-19 vaccine
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In downtown Milwaukee on Monday, teachers filed out of the Wisconsin Center with grins, deep breaths, and a cheer.
For the first time, all education and child care staff were eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, and unlike in other cities Milwaukee health workers had a supply for them. It feels wonderful, said Julia Grams, who has been teaching 4-year-old kindergarten virtually since September for Milwaukee Public Schools. “If this gives us the opportunity to have our children in the classroom, I can’t wait.”
In downtown Milwaukee on Monday, teachers filed out of the Wisconsin Center with grins, deep breaths, and a cheer.
For the first time, all education and child care staff were eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, and unlike in other cities Milwaukee health workers had a supply for them. It feels wonderful, said Julia Grams, who has been teaching 4-year-old kindergarten virtually since September for Milwaukee Public Schools. “If this gives us the opportunity to have our children in the classroom, I can’t wait.”
In other communities, vaccinators were waiting on doses that the state Department of Health Services has committed to providing specifically for educators. Julie Willems Van Dijk, DHS deputy secretary, said last week that some educators may wait up to six weeks.