Pennsylvania Teachers Will Get J&J Vaccine

March 4, 2021 2:36 am

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf has formally announced at a news conference Wednesday morning that teachers will be moving up on the state’s priority list to get the COVID-19 vaccine. “We have all decided to recommend that this Johnson & Johnson stream go to our teachers, school employees. Public and private,” Gov. Wolf said. Teachers will now be moved into the Phase 1A tier of the vaccine rollout. The aim is to get students back to in-person learning across the state as soon as possible. Wolf’s office says giving the vaccine to teachers and other school staff will “help protect school communities and get more students back into classrooms.” So far, the state’s Phase 1A tier has included vaccines for health care workers, people age 65 and over and younger people with high-risk medical conditions. Gov. Wolf’s office says teachers will now get priority access to the state’s first shipment of 94,000 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. They say the hope is “to offer it to public and private school workers, early childhood education workers, and child care workers.”