Teachers must be vaccine priority – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Councillor Elizabeth Nash (Labour), Hunslet and Riverside Ward, Leeds City Council.

No ONE could disagree that children’s education is important for both educational achievement, mental health and welfare.

But the lives of people have to be the overriding factor to be taken into account.

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It is not rocket science to realise that a child coming
from a family with Covid infection, which may be asymptomatic, will pass the
virus on to other children who will take it home to more families.

What more can be done to help children to continue with their studies during the lockdown?What more can be done to help children to continue with their studies during the lockdown?
What more can be done to help children to continue with their studies during the lockdown?

And it is an absolute disgrace that teachers, many of whom are aged over 50, are not given the same priority for vaccination as care workers.

What is wrong with 
cancelling the February school half-term holiday and taking
a week off the early Easter
break this year so that
schools may start later this winter?

The trouble with our Government is that it does too little too late.

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It appeared, before the
latest national lockdown was announced, that it was waiting
to see whether a school
had such widespread infection that it had to close after it
had infected most of the community.

Should Covid vaccines be rolled out in schools as a matter of priority?Should Covid vaccines be rolled out in schools as a matter of priority?
Should Covid vaccines be rolled out in schools as a matter of priority?

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