March 10, 2021

‘A Wild Year’: School Nurses Greatly Expand Role With Covid-19 Vaccinations, Contact Tracing-STAT

Last September, as Covid-19 vaccine candidates were rapidly advancing, Katherine Park and six of her fellow school nurses in St. Louis County, Mo., envisioned school-based vaccination sites as an extension of the district’s pandemic response plan, which they had been working on for months. They reached out to the local health department, letting it know the district had buildings for use and more than 30 school nurses who could jump in on administering shots. STAT, 03/10/2021