What do Ohio’s school coronavirus cases, reopening plans look like headed into school staff vaccination? Q&A
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
The pharmacy at MetroHealth in Cleveland catalogs the batch number on a Pfizer vaccine vial. (John Kuntz, cleveland.com)
John Kuntz, cleveland.com
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CLEVELAND, Ohio As Ohio looks to vaccinate school staff at 500 schools over the course of its first week, districts are welcoming back students into buildings.
Buildings are beginning to open up ahead of the state beginning to vaccinate staff at districts or schools that agree to return in person, fully or partially, by March 1. About 45% of students in public school districts are now fully in-person, with 36% in partial in-person. Gov. Mike DeWine, who backs the choice to prioritize educators for the vaccine as a “policy decision” to get kids back in buildings, attributed the shift to in-person instruction to the promise of the vaccine.