This website has guides, templates, and sample messages for district leaders and others to use as part of a public education campaign to increase vaccination rates.
- Tools & School Guidance
This press release explains the new California public health order for all k-12 public school staff, who must either provide proof of vaccination or submit to weekly testing.
- News
Los Angeles Unified is now the largest U.S. school district with a vaccine mandate for students aged 12 and older. This article describes the decisionmaking process and reactions from medical professionals and scientists who support the decision as key to protecting students.
- News
This article, which is frequently updated, provides the latest information on vaccination rates by state, race, and ethnicity.
- Research
This news article summarizes two September 2021 CDC reports and emphasizes that pediatric hospitalizations were more than three times higher in less vaccinated states, underscoring the importance of widespread vaccination among eligible adults and children. The studies find that the Delta variant does not appear to cause more severe illness in children but is much more transmissible.
- News
This in-depth case study documents COVID-19 cases that occurred among Marin County, California, elementary school students and their contacts following exposure to an unvaccinated infected teacher. The case highlights the importance of mitigation best practices, including masking and vaccination.
- Research
This article emphasizes that the long-term risks to children from the vaccine are far lower than the risks associated with COVID-19 infection.
- Research
This article describes how Culver City Unified School District in California became the first district in the nation to require vaccines for eligible students.
- News
This webinar discusses safe school reopening strategies, the safety of the vaccine and the need to communicate its effectiveness, and ways that school leaders can provide more in-person education.
- Virtual Training
This page, regularly updated with survey and qualitative data analyses, reveals the extent to which parents have vaccinated their children and their attitudes toward vaccine mandates.
- Research
This two-page FAQ explains what symptoms to expect after receiving the vaccines, particularly the second dose, as well as their safety and efficacy.
- Research
This toolkit provides several documents and guidance on how to encourage vaccination among staff, including printable posters and social media strategies.
- Tools & School Guidance
This press release explains that after following 12,000 recipients for 6 months to observe long-term safety outcomes, the FDA has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals age 16 and older. The vaccine had previously received only emergency use authorization (EUA) for this population. The EUA still applies for individuals age 12 through 15.
- News
This press release explains the science behind the agency's decision to authorize COVID-19 vaccines in youth aged 12 and older after examining the effectiveness of a randomized-control trial of more than 2,000 participants.
- News
This FAQ states that individuals who have been infected with COVID-19 should still sign up for the vaccine, as re-infection is possible. It also makes clear that the vaccine cannot make individuals sick or alter their DNA.
- Research
This news report explains that all New York City public school teachers and other staffers will have to receive at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by September 27.
- News
This CDC study documents breakthrough infections among a cluster of fully vaccinated adults in Massachusetts attending Fourth of July festivities. Of those who had breakthrough infections, four (1.2%) were hospitalized; two of the four had underlying medical conditions.
- Research
This regularly updated data set reveals that deaths continue to occur largely among unvaccinated individuals.
- Data
This website links to several resources for California schools to help administer vaccines, including request forms for mobile pop-up clinics, pharmacists, and volunteers.
- Tools & School Guidance
This article explains that several studies agree that most COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing hospitalization. The Pfizer vaccine remained 88% effective against the Delta virus variant in the UK and 87% effective in Canada.
- News
This webpage provides regular updates on the status of vaccine distribution by state, including numbers of people vaccinated and the number of doses allocated to each state.
- Data
This article, also available as a 4-minute listen, explains that hot spots are now occurring where there are very low rates of vaccination, especially rural areas and small towns.
- News
This study finds that 40% of surveyed Black families and more than 25% of Latino/a families have expressed hesitation about sending their children back to school in the fall, significantly higher proportions than White families. The authors conclude that schools need to continue communicating and consistently reaching out to families about local school safety precautions, virus caseloads, and vaccination rates among teachers and students.
- Research