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Teachers vaccinations begin at at BCHD’s AdventurePlex in Manhattan Beach [Update]
SHARE Redondo Beach Child Development teacher Sarai Cuevas receives a COVID-19 innoculation from Manhattan Beach Firefighter Tyler Wade on Wednesday, at the Beach Cities Health District’s AdventurePlex in Manhattan Beach. Looking on are Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn and Redondo Beach Schools Superintendent Steven Keller. Photo by Kevin Cody
by Kevin Cody
Approximately 1,200 teachers at 11 South Bay public school districts began receiving Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination shots on Wednesday at AdventurePlex, in Manhattan Beach.
AdventurePlex is a children’s play facility owned by the Beach Cities Health District, which is coordinating administration of the vaccinations. Volunteer medical professionals and fire fighters administered the vaccination shots on the play facility’s indoor basketball court.
The reopening of in-person classroom instruction within the Manhattan Beach Unified School District and all area schools has been suspended due to the surge in COVID-19 cases occurring throughout Los Angeles County.
Superintendent Mike Matthews issued an unusual Sunday night message to the MBUSD parent community announcing the change in plans. The school board had held a special meeting on December 31 in which the date for reopening was moved from January 5 to January 13.
“Since then, two of our elementary-aged child care cohorts are not in school due to two cases of COVID in those classrooms,”
Matthews wrote in his Sunday night message. “And while there is no evidence of spread so far, which has been the case in all of our classrooms, these two incidents bring our case total to 34 since we returned to campus on September 16, 2020. That’s a big number, and it reflects the number of cases in our community.” Matthews said that Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
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