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Today on Colorado Edition: As parents, students, and staff get ready for the upcoming school year, some COVID-19 guidance for classrooms is yet to be determined. We hear the latest, and explore how getting back to our favorite pre-pandemic activities is more difficult for those who are immunocompromised, especially in areas where vaccination rates are low. We hear about the rise in non-police crisis response teams across the state, including in Denver, which just approved more funding for their program. And, we discuss the response to a new state law which bans the use of American Indian imagery in school mascots.
Lindsay Bazz fought back tears as she considered what it will mean to be vaccinated, not just for herself but for her students and her family.
âItâs just a big sense of relief,â the Jeffco Public Schools high school teacher said Saturday as she waited in a snaking line at a Kaiser Permanente facility in the south Denver suburbs. âIâll just feel safer. I donât want to be a carrier.â
Tens of thousands of Colorado educators have received their first COVID-19 vaccine shot since eligibility opened on Feb. 8. That includes 13,000 at mass vaccination events held at Kaiser facilities last weekend, as well 4,000 at Centura Health locations, 2,900 at an event at the state fairgrounds in Pueblo, and 500 employees of the Mapleton district at North Suburban Medical Center.