Baltimore County Hosts Mass Vaccination Clinics To Encourage Students To Get Covid-19 Vaccine

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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (WJZ) — With the commencement of schoolhouse conscionable weeks away, Baltimore County wants to marque definite each eligible students person the accidental to rotation up their sleeves to get the covid shot.

A wide vaccination session was held astatine New Town High School successful Owings Mills connected Monday.

“I wanted to get the COVID vaccine to halt the dispersed of COVID, conscionable due to the fact that the delta variant,” said Temitope Adenaike, 9th people Baltimore County student.

Baltimore County pupil Temitope Adenaike was joined by different young Marylanders — a colonisation wellness officials person precocious been targeting.

Monday’s wide vaccination session is each portion of the county’s pupil vaccination inaugural wherever clinics volition beryllium held astatine precocious schools implicit the coming weeks to get much shots into the arms of everyone ages 12 and up.

The determination is thing the U.S. Secretary of Education wants to spot implemented nationwide.

“We beryllium it to our students who are waiting to get backmost into their classrooms,” said Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education.

The clinics volition beryllium held astatine region precocious schools successful communities that person been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and that person vaccination rates little than the region average.

Baltimore County has been a person successful efficiently and efficaciously delivering vaccines to residents and much than 70 percent of region residents aged 12 and older person received astatine slightest 1 dose.

However, galore communities crossed the region proceed to person little vaccination rates. Vaccination rates are besides little for younger residents with lone astir 47 percent of residents betwixt the ages of 12 and 18 having received astatine slightest 1 dose.

Officials anticipation to unfastened the doorway for much students to instrumentality safely to the schoolroom this upcoming schoolhouse year.

“I’m looking guardant to everyone getting their vaccines truthful we tin spell backmost to mean and person mean schoolhouse years,” said Adenaike.

Once schoolhouse is successful session, COVID-19 vaccines volition besides beryllium disposable astatine 17 wellness centers wrong schoolhouse buildings crossed the county.

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Dundalk High School volition beryllium hosting the adjacent vaccine session connected Tuesday, Aug. 10 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.