Next in line for vaccines, Michigan teachers are feeling optimistic
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
Scenes from the first day of school at Warner Elementary School in Spring Arbor on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. The Western School District is returning to class four and a half days each week. J. Scott Park | MLive.comJoel Bissell | MLive.com
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Cheryl Valdahl, a teacher at Walker-Winter Elementary School in Canton, knows she has an amazing class of first-graders this year. She just hasn’t met them in person yet.
She’s been teaching online since the school year started, but is hopeful for a return to in-person learning after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced teachers would be among the next in line for vaccinations, starting Monday, Jan. 11.
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Michigan health officials set the goal of vaccinating that percentage of the population - which is about 5.4 million people - but originally only said adults 18 and up were able to get the COVID-19vaccine.
Vaccinations have begun being administered across the state after the FDA approved Pfizer s vaccine late last week. On Thursday, an FDA advisory panel will be meeting to discuss the Moderna vaccine, which is also expected to be approved soon.
The MDHHS is also now recommending women who are pregnant also get vaccinated with, of course, a conversation with your doctor about it.