KINGSTON â Teachers and school staff in the region began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations Friday during a five-day period that ends Tuesday at the Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 office building.
âItâs pretty exciting actually. Iâm glad. With the Johnson & Johnson one-dose, you only have to do it once,â said Bonny Mannello, strength coach for the Dallas School District. âAnd weâre anxious to get the kids back to schools so that the teachers are safe.â
Teachers and school staff from throughout the region wait to be vaccinated outside Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 in Kingston on Friday. Michael P. Buffer / Staff photo
Dallas currently has a hybrid plan that mixes online and in-person instruction days and plans to start in-person instruction five days a week on March 22. Under the hybrid plan, students go to in-person classes twice a week.
HARRISBURG, Pa. /Massachusetts Newswire – National News/ AMI Expeditionary Healthcare announces its partnership with the state of Pennsylvania and for its special initiative to help vaccinate all schoolteachers, child-care worker and school staff. Pennsylvania expects to receive an initial allocation of 94,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) single-dose vaccine this week and AMI Expeditionary Healthcare will begin vaccinating on March 10.
“This is an extraordinary opportunity to be able to help Pennsylvania open the doors to school children from Pre-K to 12 across the state of Pennsylvania,” said Dr. Michael Wilson, Medical Director, Vaccine and Testing Programs for AMI Expeditionary Healthcare. “We are relying on a proven track record of being on the ground across the country and globe to help Pennsylvania execute this very ambitious plan.”
(HARRISBURG, Pa.) NEWS: AMI Expeditionary Healthcare announces its partnership with the state of Pennsylvania and for its special initiative to help vaccinate all schoolteachers, child-care worker and school staff. Pennsylvania expects to receive an initial allocation of 94,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) single-dose vaccine this week and AMI Expeditionary Healthcare will begin vaccinating on March 10.
“This is an extraordinary opportunity to be able to help Pennsylvania open the doors to school children from Pre-K to 12 across the state of Pennsylvania,” said Dr. Michael Wilson, Medical Director, Vaccine and Testing Programs for AMI Expeditionary Healthcare. “We are relying on a proven track record of being on the ground across the country and globe to help Pennsylvania execute this very ambitious plan.”