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Instead of Cupid shot, 580 Durango 9-R
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staff and faculty
received their first round
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of the COVID-19 vaccine as an
early Valentine’s day present.
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You’re watching the local news network
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I’m Wendy Graham Settle.
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Durango school district
9-R took an important step
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toward reopening classes to
in-person learning full-time
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with a vaccination clinic
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for teachers and staff on February 13th.
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Durango 9-R staff were
included in the third phase
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of vaccinations,
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for frontline and essential workers.
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Signup sheets went out the week
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of February 8th for the two clinics
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one at Escalante Middle School,
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and the other at Durango high school.
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Mercy Regional Medical Center
vaccinated childcare workers.
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Nearly 600 faculty and staff
received their first vaccine
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at clinics organized by San
Juan basin public health
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and Albertsons.
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So earlier this month,
the governor of Colorado,
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governor Jared Polis asked that educators
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get worked in right here
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in the first couple of weeks of February.
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So beginning February 8th, we had access
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to doses as San Juan
based in public health.
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We worked with providers
in the community to ensure
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that we got as many doses to
the community as possible.
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And we started scheduling
with the different providers
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and with all of the P through 12 educators
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school staff and licensed
childcare appointments
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around the county
beginning today Saturday.
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Superintendent Dan snow
Berger, who assisted
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at the Escalante clinic estimated that 70%
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of the staff would
receive their first round
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of the vaccine between the
two clinics with 328 staff
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and faculty signed up at Escalante
and 168 signed up at DHS.
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You know, educators
are frontline employees
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and just like medical workers,
they’re in a classroom
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with a number of a large number
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of children and a large
number of, of, in some cases
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adolescents who are equally as at risk
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of spreading and catching and,
and contributing the virus.
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So because we have this
great community effort
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of providers coming together with all
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of the schools and coming together
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with the additional
schools and the childcare
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in the community and starting at this week
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we really believe that
by the beginning of March
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almost a hundred percent
of our K through 12,
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our preschool and our licensed
childcare staff, teachers
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and other workers will all have had access
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to a full set of vaccines.
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So this means that most
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of our educators will be done
by the beginning of March.
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This is really great news from
a public health perspective.
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We just couldn’t be more
thrilled to have teachers
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able to be in the classroom
safely and get as many kids
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as possible back for in-person learning
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because we know how important that is
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to families and to the
community and to all of us.
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Those who received their
vaccines on Saturday,
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will get the second Pfizer
vaccine on March 13th.
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Thanks for watching this edition
of the local news network.
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I’m Wendy Graham.