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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If you’re a parent who received free diapers in the past year, there’s a very good chance they came from Nashville Diaper Connection. In 2020, the organization whose website features the slogan “No Child Wet Behind” provided a total of 2 million diapers to local families, up from 860,000 in 2019. Close to 66,000 of those were given out in the first four days following the March 3 tornado.
According to the National Diaper Bank Network, as many as one in three families reports experiencing diaper need. Diapers cost an average of $70 to $80 a month per child, nearly $1,000 a year. Nashville Diaper Connection, Nashville’s only diaper bank, provides a stock of diapers for 57 distribution partners across the city. And in 2020, the need widened.