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Originally published on February 21, 2021 5:05 pm
At a high school in Washington, D.C., this past week, Bridget Cronin looked on as public school workers shuffled through the two dozen vaccination stations that lined the building s atrium.
Volunteers alternated waving green placards to usher in the next patient. Red placards were on hand to signal the need for more vaccine doses.
The mass vaccination event to immunize teachers and other public school workers in the district, held at Dunbar High School, was the culmination of weeks of planning. We ve got a cool flow going, where people can quickly come, get assessed by a doctor or nurse, pharmacist at the table, said Cronin, vice president of operations integration at nearby Children s National Hospital, who was in charge of setting up and overseeing the vaccine drive. It s all one-way traffic all the way through the site to keep everything moving.
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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It s one of the puzzles of this pandemic. The economy can t come back online without working parents. Working parents cannot fully focus on their jobs without their kids being back in school. And their kids can t get back into school without teachers returning to the classroom. There is now a big tool to help that happen - vaccines. Here is President Biden speaking at a CNN town hall this past week.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I think that teachers and the folks who work in the school, the cafeteria workers and others, should be on the list of preferred to get a vaccination.
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