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By Carol Tannenhauser
New York City School District 3, including the Upper West Side and part of Harlem, has the second highest vaccination rate in the city, with 77% of its students receiving at least one dose of the vaccine, Chalkbeat reported, based on data the education department released Friday.
Edging us out for first was District 2, covering much of lower Manhattan, some of Chinatown, and the Upper East Side, with 80% of its students receiving at least one dose.
Both districts are well above citywide rates. “In total, 59% of the city’s public school students have received at least one vaccine dose and nearly 52% are considered fully vaccinated,” Chalkbeat reported.
Disparities between individual schools are great, the data shows. “Out of the city’s nearly 1,600 district schools, the share of students who have been vaccinated with at least one dose ranges from from just 12% to 94%.”
Within District 3, there are also significant disparities. For instance, at PS 87 on W. 78th Street, 86% of students have received at least one dose of the vaccine, versus 45% of students at PS 145 on W. 105th Street. At PS 199 on W. 70th Street, 84% have received one dose, versus 54% at PS 165 on W. 109th Street.
Chalkbeat has provided a tool for checking your school’s vaccination rate. It can be found at the end of the Chalkbeat article.
Who cares…since the vaccinated and unvaccinated can both catch and spread Covid. It’s time to put the “pandemic” behind us and start focusing on the three R’s.
People who don’t smoke and aren’t around smokers can also get lung cancer. Does that mean everyone should start smoking or inhaling second hand smoke? No – because the potential for serious harm is very different between smokers, people affected by second hand smoke, and non-smokers who are away from second hand smoke.
In this case, unvaxxed are smokers. They get and transmit covid at a much higher rate, and they are much more likely to have serious complications from it. Vaxxed people exposed to unvaxxed are like second hand smokers. Their risks are reduced significantly because they are vaxxed, but their exposure to unvaxxed still elevates their risk above being in populations of entirely or nearly entirely vaxxed.
We banned smoking from most public establishments. I’d have no issue continuing the ban of unvaxxed from most public establishments as well. They’re making a lifestyle choice. There’s no reason we should all take on additional risk because of their behavior.
@tailfins, exactly! I’ve lost patience a long time ago with these selfish, inconsiderate, ignorant fools.
Well stated. I agree.
Gonna guess you don’t even have kids
Who cares? Really? Wow. We all want the pandemic behind us, but that doesn’t make it so. And even though vaccinated people can get Covid and spread it, it’s at a MUCH lower rate, which slows the spread of the virus and reduces hospitalizations and deaths. That’s the whole point. Not that hard to understand. I will continue to listen to the experts, and if it’s safe enough to skip masks and distancing and gathering with unvaccinated people I’ll be the first to celebrate. But don’t diminish the pain and suffering many families have gone through from losing a loved one to Covid by saying “who cares”.