Oakridger
The Anderson County and Oak Ridge school systems are administering COVID-19 vaccines at events Friday for teachers, staff, substitutes and bus drivers.
“To have this available to our teachers will help them feel supported in their efforts to get back to their classes and return to more normal circumstances,” Holly Cross, supervisor of Career Readiness and Communications, told The Oak Ridger.
“It’s getting the vaccine to folks as quickly as possible and in a way that doesn’t inconvenience them,” Ryan Sutton, communications and public relations coordinator for Anderson County Schools, said in a phone interview. He said it would also help establish herd immunity.
Schools plan to vaccinate OR teachers, staff but when?
Oakridger
With the state now allowing teachers to get COVID-19 vaccines beginning Monday, officials with Oak Ridge Schools have been preparing how to give them.
Bruce Lay, Oak Ridge Schools executive director of school leadership, said the Tennessee Department of Health pre-approved Oak Ridge Schools to receive COVID-19 vaccines for staff.
The state has announced that kindergarten- through 12th-grade teachers and child care workers will be eligible for vaccines beginning Monday.
However, Lay said the school system was waiting to learn when it will receive the Moderna vaccines for the events the school system has planned.