The Baker-Polito administration said it would back efforts to set aside four educator-only days at local and regional vaccination sites, including Cape Cod.
Educators likely will get their own COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Cape Cod after all.
In a U-turn from their announcement earlier this week, Cape Cod officials are working on plans for a clinic that would be open only to K-12 educators and staff, and child care workers.
The Barnstable County Vaccine Consortium will release more details next week, state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, said Thursday during the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force’s weekly press briefing.
His announcement marks a shift from a letter the Cape’s legislative delegation sent Tuesday to Cape school superintendents.
The letter, signed by eight legislators, said the Baker-Polito administration had told them it had no plans for an educator-only site anywhere on Cape Cod, including the Upper Cape Regional Technical School in Bourne, where some officials had hoped to host a teacher-vaccination clinic.
BOURNE The Cape s legislative delegation sent a letter to local school superintendents telling them not to expect an educator-only vaccination site this side of the bridge any time soon, even as state officials Wednesday called for such local clinics to be held.
“We have asked the Baker-Polito Administration about setting up educator-specific sites and, so far, we have received a hard NO,” the letter dated Tuesday read.
The eight legislators urged teachers and other school employees not to wait for a vaccine but to avail themselves of appointments through CVS, the state’s seven mass vaccination sites and other currently available locations.