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The vaccination rate in Oklahoma is below the national average. The Sooner State is almost 10 percentage points lower than the national average. Health officials in Logan County are reporting some of the lowest rates in the state. Jan Fox with the Logan County Health Department said more than 31% of residents have received at least one dose of the shot. The percentage of those fully vaccinated is even lower. That s population over the age of 12 which compared to the rest of the state is a very low vaccination rate,” Fox said.Fox said Logan County’s rate also lags behind neighboring counties. Why that is, I m not exactly sure, but I do believe that within your social network,” she said. “So if you re living in a community where your friends and family are vaccinated, you re likely to be vaccinated. She said two groups are hesitant. The one group that s just very distrustful of vaccines, and are concerned about the rapid speed in which the, they were approved,” she s ....
Olympia High School The state of Illinois put teachers near the front of the line to get their COVID-19 vaccinations when they became available. School administrators now want to know how many teachers and staff already received the vaccine, or expect to, so they can make plans for the next school year. But getting that information be tricky. Cindy Williams teaches at Bent Elementary in Bloomington. She recalled how tough it was last fall trying to connect with 25 first-grade students on a Zoom call. “The only way I can sum it up is painful,” Williams said. Williams said getting students back into the classroom, first two days a week and then four, has helped them catch up. When the COVID vaccine became available for teachers, it was an easy choice for her. ....
LOGAN â Logan County will not lose the Tri-River Transit bus service, despite the public transit line item in the 2021-22 budget reading $0. Tri-River Transit, based in Hamlin, is a bus service that provides low-cost transportation to residents of Logan, Lincoln, Boone, Mason and Wayne counties. In the Logan County Commissionâs 2021-2022 budget, which was approved March 26 and will go into effect July 1, public transit is listed as $0, in comparison to $40,000 from the coal severance budget in the previous budget. During public comments at Mondayâs regular session of the commission, Cora resident Boothe Davis asked commissioners about the line item. Davis said he is a regular user of Tri-Riverâs services. ....
A trans woman was refused the COVID-19 vaccine. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A trans woman in Oklahoma was denied the life-saving coronavirus vaccine because she had a “mismatched” identity document. The resident, who has not been named, was turned away by the Logan County Health Department because her name did not match what was written on her ID card. She sought to explain this administrative snag to healthcare officials – she was waiting on the paperwork, she claimed – but the department still refused, KOCO5 News reported. Frustrated, the woman reached out to Freedom Oklahoma, Oklahoma’s sole statewide LGBT+ advocacy group, for help – and they were prepared for a fight. ....