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Vaccine clinics in Kitsap County and Washington state are preparing to accommodate younger patients as U.S. regulators signed on to the expanded use of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12 on Monday.
Shots could begin as soon as this week after the Food and Drug Administration signed off on expanding the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds.
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Published: 4/14/2021 4:22:36 PM
As area schools roll out plans to provide a five-day in-person option by next week in order to comply with Governor Chris Sununu’s executive order, Sununu has announced that scheduled remote days won’t count toward the state-required 180 days of instructional time.
On the heels of his initial announcement five-day in-person announcement, Sununu announced during a press conference that after April 19, remote days – with exceptions for COVID-19 specific situations outlined in his original order – wouldn’t be counted as instructional days by the state and would have to be made up at the end of the school year.
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In wake of recent tragedies involving children in the Greater Cincinnati area, Mason School Superintendent Jonathan Cooper took to social media Friday to talk about the impact these events have on our communities. The tragic events that have happened here at Mason have impacted us all. A lot of times we search for answers Why did this happen? and oftentimes, there are not answers, not easy answers, but there is support, Cooper said. A few years ago, the Mason School District invested in a mental wellness team. We have a whole mental wellness team that is working right alongside our counselors to provide the resources that families and students need, said Mason City Schools spokesperson Tracey Carson. The team includes nine school-based therapists from Children s Hospital and also therapy dogs. Members of the team are available to parents as well as students. Within our mental wellness team, we have folks that are there to help families connect to the resources they need,