, a number of counties have moved into that phase -- students can get back into classrooms and their parents back to work.
"We are encouraging districts to prioritize those teachers and front-line staff by age and comorbidities," Cox added.on Friday"that 11 health districts will begin vaccinating people in Group 1B starting the week of January 11," also noting on that this includes teachers.A dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is administered in Aurora, Colo., Dec. 16, 2020.
"I think that nobody wants to be back, in-person instruction, more than more than educators do," said John Larson, president of Oregon's statewide teacher's union, the Oregon Education Association."It's what they've dedicated their lives to -- it's just that it needs to be safe. And the vaccine would go a long way towards helping people feel that they're safe in doing their job.
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