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The Cathedral School principal said 81% of the 260 students enrolled are choosing to attend in person. Author: Christine Pitawanich Updated: 9:45 PM PST January 20, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. As more school districts across Oregon figure out plans to bring more kids into the classroom, there are some schools that have already brought students back for full-time in-person learning.
Many larger districts in the state have complicated decisions to make when it comes to how to safely offer limited in-person instruction for students.
But for some smaller schools, like Cathedral School in Northwest Portland, the transition has been a little easier.
“We are opening up, but it’s going to be far from business as usual,” said Amy Biggs. She’s the principal at Cathedral School, a private Catholic school serving kids in Pre-Kindergarten to eighth grade who are now in class for full-day, in-person learning.
As health care workers locally and nationally this past week rolled up their sleeves to receive the first doses of a long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine, they reported feeling the monumental import of the moment and sensing their place in the history books.
Iowa State University professor Amy Bix, in a conversation with The Gazette, confirmed their historical hunches given her expertise in the history of science and medicine.
“Of course, the history of vaccines is a major part of the broader subject of the history of medicine, which is something that I teach at Iowa State,” Bix said.
She talked with The Gazette about that history and what lessons it might offer in the current moment.
Posted Dec 12, 2020 12:00 am AMES, Iowa – The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for the first of several COVID-19 vaccines seeking its approval. As distribution begins, Iowa State University experts are available to comment on the safety of the vaccine, the history of such rollouts and the reason some people may refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccine safety David Verhoeven, an assistant professor of veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine, works with animal vaccine companies to help manufacture initial vaccines for testing. He has contributed to research related to swine diseases as well as flu and coronavirus in humans. His expertise includes mRNA vaccines, a relatively new approach used by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to produce their COVID-19 vaccines.