California released a new plan today (Thursday) outlining how the state will allocate vaccines to education workers. That, as Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to push to reopen more schools to in-person instruction.
The governor announced last week that at least 10% of the state’s vaccines would go to education workers starting in March, which translates to roughly 75,000 dedicated doses a week.
Today (On Thursday,) his office released an overview showing how those vaccines would be distributed. Each week, the state will provide 75,000 doses to county offices of education for distribution. Teachers and other education workers will get single-use codes to make expedited appointments online.
If that many vaccines do come through, it could be a matter of weeks for California’s 320,000 K-12 public school teachers to be inoculated.
