Hundreds of Cape students age 12 and older have signed up for school-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics being offered over the next two weeks, local health and education officials said.
Barnstable County is supplying first doses of the Pfizer vaccine for clinics in several Cape school districts, starting Thursday at Monomoy Regional High School, Barnstable County Public Health Nurse Deirdre Arvidson said.
She said the county hopes to dispense 1,100 to 1,200 first doses in Cape schools between now and early June.
As of Tuesday, 159 people had signed up for the Monomoy clinic, 146 for a clinic being put on by the Nauset Regional School District and 103 for a Friday clinic at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, for which registration was just made available Monday, Arvidson said.
A newly formed advisory board will promote youth civic engagement and connect high school students in Sandwich to the Sandwich Board of Selectmen.
Sandwich High School senior Nico Gentile and faculty adviser Chris Tansey presented the idea of the Sandwich Youth Commission to the board of selectmen at its meeting on May 13.
In its current iteration, the commission will be composed of nine high school students of varying grade levels: five students from the town high school, two students from Cape Cod Academy, and two students from the Sturgis Charter schools. All of the involved students are Sandwich residents; this composition will be fluid depending on the number of interested students at each school.
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