LA County prepared to expand vaccinations to teachers, frontline workers
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) Los Angeles County is ready to soon expand vaccination appointments to teachers and essential workers.
Vaccine eligibility is expected to expand starting next week, but the availability of appointments will depend on how many doses the county expects to receive - and county officials won t know that figure for another day.
There will be nearly 400 sites in L.A. County administering the vaccines. The new people eligible will include food and agriculture workers, teachers and other education and childcare workers, and emergency services employees and first responders.
Most LA schools still have some steps to follow before reopening
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Schools and districts still have some steps to take before they can reopen, if they want to.
The threshold for letting elementary schools reopen is five days of new COVID-19 cases of 25 or fewer per 100,000 people living in the county.
But once reaching that point - which Los Angeles has - the only schools that can start to reopen are those which have already obtained waivers or submitted COVID-19 safety plans in advance.
There are extensive safety requirements that schools must follow as part of those safety plans, including social distancing, masking requirements, sufficient ventilation and testing programs.
Castaic Union School District To Discuss In-Person Learning For TK-2 Students
The Castaic Union School District (CUSD), is set to discuss returning Transitional Kindergarten through second-grade students back to in-person learning at their next board meeting next week.
CUSD is targeting Monday, Feb. 22 as the return date to allow TK-2 students to return to in-person learning, said Steve Doyle, the superintendent for the District.
“At the Jan. 14th meeting of the Board of Trustees, it was approved that Monday, Feb. 22nd was the planned target date for the return of our TK-2 students in the hybrid model,” Doyle said in a letter sent to Castaic parents last week.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn says she would like a system set up to make sure any unused COVID-19 vaccines are given out and not thrown away before they expire.