Updated on January 30, 2021 at 10:35 am
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The new case was identified in an adult living in the Baltimore metro region with no international travel history, making community transmission likely, officials say. Contact tracing is underway.
Vaccinations for D.C.-area teachers began this week. So far, more than 1,130 D.C. public school teachers and staff and 802 charter school teachers and staff have been vaccinated with their first dose.
Starting Monday, Feb. 1, child care providers and independent school teachers and staff in D.C. will be eligible to book a vaccination appointment as well.
About 1,400 appointments will be made available for the first week of February and 900 appointments for each subsequent week.
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“We’re in the community … and so we were able to work with the people we already knew, really come together to get this done,” said Hemerick, who administers vaccines at Martinsburg High School. “Some days we have 600-plus doses that we’re putting in arms, so really one person couldn’t handle that.”
The pharmacists giving shots at Martinsburg High School travel in from three different counties in the eastern panhandle, teaming up to slow the spread.
The clinic focuses on school employees age 50 and older, since the pharmacists have already finished administering first and second shots at all the long-term care centers.