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Dec. 18, 2020 8:34 am ET
Coronavirus vaccines rolled out across the nation this week for front-line health-care workers and residents of long-term care facilities. Teachers and school staff are vying for one of the first spots in line behind them.
Some stakeholders, ranging from teachers to state representatives to governors, have pushed to give priority to educators for coronavirus vaccines as the pandemic destabilizes education for more than 50 million children and their families. School staff are a portion of the 87 million essential workers including grocers, farmworkers, taxi drivers, firefighters, meatpacking factory workers and aviation employees who may be next in line for the vaccine. Leaders across these industries have lobbied for prioritization.