There were 41 responses to this week's Tele-Talk question: "A third of parents say they’ll get their kids vaccinated. Would you?" A slight majority said they would not vaccinate their kids.
I don't have kids, but I am an elementary school teacher. We have had more COVID cases in the school in two months than we had in the entire 2020-21 school year. Each time, a student is out for two plus weeks and often the whole family gets sick. Risk of serious illness aside, the disruption to their education and social emotional development is huge. The sooner kids are vaccinated the sooner we can hopefully be out of this pandemic. Brenda Burney
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