{"id":32474,"date":"2021-03-05T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32474"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:37:55","slug":"not-everyone-happy-with-the-push-to-vaccinate-teachers-especially-if-its-at-the-expense-of-others-place-in-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32474","title":{"rendered":"Not everyone happy with the push to vaccinate teachers (especially if it\u2019s at the expense of others\u2019 place in line)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is defending the president&#8217;s decision to prioritize vaccinations for teachers and school staff.<\/p>\n<p>Critics charge it will deepen inequalities around vaccine access and allege\u00a0President Biden\u00a0is bowing to pressure from teachers unions.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, announced Tuesday, uses the administration&#8217;s partnership with pharmacies to prioritize giving educators at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine this month.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9line Gounder, an infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist at New York University who advised the Biden transition team on COVID-19, tweeted that the move &#8220;doesn&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gounder argued that older, at-risk teachers should already be getting vaccinated under current priority groups. She noted pharmacies are not getting any additional allocations.<\/p>\n<p>Without extra supply, Gounder said pharmacies would be &#8220;taking vaccine away from higher-risk persons &amp; communities of color to vaccine young healthy teachers. This is an ANTI-EQUITY move.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is defending the&#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":[17,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32474","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=32474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32475,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32474\/revisions\/32475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}