Rhode Island partners with 9 colleges to get students, staff vaccinated
The schools will either hold on-campus vaccination clinics, or will provide free shuttle service from campus to vaccination sites.
By The Associated PressUpdated April 30, 2021, 1:53 p.m.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. â The Rhode Island Department of Health is partnering with nine colleges and universities across the state to make getting a coronavirus vaccine as easy as possible for all students, faculty and staff before the end of the spring semester.
Under the program announced Thursday, schools will either hold on-campus vaccination clinics, or will provide free shuttle service from campus to vaccination sites.
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Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) are working with colleges and universities throughout Rhode Island to make COVID-19 vaccines as accessible as possible for all students, faculty, and staff before the spring semester ends.
“Now that vaccine eligibility is open to all people 16 and older who live, work, or go to school in Rhode Island, it’s important that we get our young people who live in congregate settings vaccinated,” said Governor McKee. “We’re working with our colleges and universities to get as many shots in arms as possible before students recess for the summer.”
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As the vaccine rollout continues throughout the United States and the world, students everywhere are looking to the back-to-school season as a shining light at the end of the COVID tunnel. After over a year of Zoom classes, staying inside, and contact tracing, it s looking like the fall semester could provide some normalcy for students once again.In order to ensure that fate, schools across the country have started to announce a vaccine mandate, which requires their students be fully immunized before stepping back on campus in the fall.
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