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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman praised the county’s nationalist schools for mandating each teachers, enactment unit and precocious schoolhouse student-athletes get vaccinated oregon tested play by November 22nd.
He wants the mandate to spell beyond that.
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“I americium looking guardant to the time erstwhile either the national government, the authorities authorities oregon our schoolhouse committee makes a determination that covid vaccines volition beryllium added to the database of vaccines that are required for kids to travel to school. I judge that’s coming. It can’t travel soon enough. When we bash that I judge that we volition beryllium capable to marque immoderate superior advancement and bushed this microorganism erstwhile and for all,” Pittman said astatine a quality briefing Tuesday.
Anne Arundel County’s Executive says helium is “looking guardant to the day” erstwhile vaccines volition beryllium required for children to travel to school. “It can’t travel soon enough.” @wjz #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/SWxhlXF9Je
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 21, 2021
“For the student-athletes successful peculiar it’s going to support them steadfast and connected the field,” said Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman, the county’s wellness officer.
Joshua Mondor played shot erstwhile helium was successful precocious schoolhouse successful Anne Arundel County. He told WJZ portion helium supports vaccines, mandating them for student-athletes goes excessively far.
“I got the vaccine too, but I’m not a immense instrumentality of the mandate due to the fact that immoderate radical don’t privation to get it. Some radical person reactions to it,” Mondor said.
In Anne Arundel County, 1,092 students and 21 unit members are successful quarantine #COVID19 @wjz pic.twitter.com/prZb0GkgRK
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 21, 2021
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It comes arsenic 1,092 students and 21 unit members are present successful quarantine successful Anne Arundel County Public Schools, astir treble past week’s numbers. 170 students and 14 unit person progressive COVID—19 cases.
Natasha Freeman has 2 children successful the county’s schoolhouse system. She told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren she agrees with the latest vaccine mandates.
“One of my children is disabled. I consciousness safer for them going to schoolhouse with vaccinated people. I’m vaccinated,” Freeman said. “If the teachers person to beryllium vaccinated, the students should beryllium vaccinated too.”
She praised the schoolhouse system’s actions arsenic they enactment to forestall caller infections. “The region sends retired emails. They don’t fto them get connected a autobus without masks. They don’t fto them travel successful the schoolhouse without their masks. They’ve been beauteous bully with america truthful far,” she said.
46 caller deaths reported successful Maryland contiguous owed to #COVID19; 974 caller cases. Positivity is up, hospitalizations stayed the aforesaid @wjz pic.twitter.com/Qzb52vBZZo
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 21, 2021
The county’s schoolhouse committee meets astatine 6 p.m. Wednesday and volition beryllium unfastened to the public. All attendees indispensable beryllium masked and are “subject to mean abstraction limitations successful the committee room” schoolhouse officials said successful a statement.
Pfizer said this week that its vaccine is harmless successful children ages 5 to 11. Pfizer is seeking national authorities authorization to administer it to them.
The shots are fixed astatine one-third the big dose. Anne Arundel County’s wellness serviceman Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman said Tuesday helium is present preparing for erstwhile those younger kids tin get the vaccine. The region volition enactment with schools, pharmacies and pediatricians. “We expect an summation successful request for vaccines,” helium said.
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Currently, lone those 12 and older tin get vaccinated.
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