{"id":31758,"date":"2021-02-17T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31758"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:53:56","slug":"white-house-says-teacher-vaccinations-not-required-for-schools-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31758","title":{"rendered":"White House says teacher vaccinations not required for schools to reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jmnfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbbsfmtt_dcttcchphftmthmgpdjp.html?a=&amp;b=36984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jmnfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbbsfmtt_dcttcchphftmthmgpdjp.html?a%3D%26b%3D36984&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613689428440000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHTyyeN3MKIzVnzA1EaAcY1fDabzA\">Jen Psaki<\/a>\u00a0said Wednesday that vaccinating teachers is not a requirement for reopening schools for in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither the president nor the vice president believe that it is a requirement,\u201d Psaki said at a briefing when asked whether teachers need to be vaccinated before they return to school.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki said that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines issued on Friday \u201cincluded a range of mitigation steps, including vaccinations, as recommendations, but the mitigation steps also included steps like social distancing, smaller class sizes, the need for sanitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, the president and vice president also believe that teachers should be prioritized,\u201d Psaki continued. \u201cThat\u2019s up to states to determine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:\u00a0<\/strong>The White House has been careful about wading into the debate around vaccines and reopening schools, as teachers\u2019 unions demand access to vaccines before returning to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary\u00a0Jen Psaki\u00a0said Wednesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31759,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31758\/revisions\/31759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}