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“Our particular congregation has been impacted by COVID,” he said. “We could look at these five deaths that have occurred over the last year attributed to COVID. We even had two mysterious deaths that occurred before they started counting.”
Terrell and his wife, Beverly, went to one of the local vaccination clinics that Oklahoma-City County Health Department sponsored. This one took place in late March at Star Spencer High School, in northeast Oklahoma City, a historically Black community. The department worked with more than a dozen churches in the area to coordinate sign ups in their congregations.
The McCoys say they wanted to lead by example, and show what a blessing the vaccine can be. And to remind people this isn’t their first rodeo with shots.
For Voice of Hope pastor Terrell McCoy, the fight against the coronavirus is personal.
“Our particular congregation has been impacted by COVID,” he said. “We could look at these five deaths that have occurred over the last year attributed to COVID. We even had two mysterious deaths that occurred before they started counting.”
Terrell and his wife, Beverly, went to one of the local vaccination clinics that Oklahoma-City County Health Department sponsored. This one took place in late March at Star Spencer High School, in northeast Oklahoma City, a historically Black community. The department worked with more than a dozen churches in the area to coordinate sign ups in their congregations.
Support staff keep schools running in pandemic
Oklahoman
When COVID-19 flipped education upside down, all parts of the schoolhouse turned with it. The pandemic touched not only the classroom, but the cafeteria, the nurse’s office and the school bus.
As teachers and administrators found new ways to deliver instruction, changes were just as dramatic for the nearly 41,000 support staff working in Oklahoma’s public schools.
Oklahoma City Public Schools employs more than 2,400 support staff, 66% of whom are women and 71% are people of color.
These employees found themselves on the front lines of a pandemic, providing core services to their community, when all public schools in the state were ordered March 25, 2020, to close for the rest of the academic year.
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