Nationally syndicated columnist Adriana Cohen tells 'Fox & Friends' teachers should be prioritized for the coronavirus vaccine when it's made available so that schools can reopen.
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Op Ed should give teachers
priority Covid 19 vaccines, so
schools can reopen
joining me now is columnist,
Adrianna Cohen.
Why should teachers move to the
front of the line and be
prioritized in getting a
vaccine? Please,
absolutely
millions are suffering being cut
off from peers and teachers
with school closures we have
millions of american children
who are staring at computer
screens all day.
This has taken enormous toll on
them, physically, mentally and
academically.
If you look at mentally how its
effecting them, mental illness is up in children, five to seventeen
up in children, five to seventeen,
the CDC reports, thirty one percent increase in
emergency department, kids
suffering from mental illness
since April.
This is a catastrophe.
Secondly, you have the issue of
failing grades. All over the
United States were seeing Marv
number dropping out of school,
because virtual learning isnt
dropped out of school system
this year,
in LOS Angeles, in the largest
school district, there eleven thousand
students have dropped out.
We are seeing similar dropouts
in North Carolina, Utah,
Washington, D, dot c, and then, if
you look at the grades, the
grades are in because we have
already got the first report
card. In from the first semester
for school,
there has been a massive
increase in students, middle
schoolers and high school
students who are failing school.
This is totally unacceptable.
Its a national health crisis
and we need to get kids back
into the classroom.
Will I agree Adriana while
that has been discussed, we
havent done much but give lip
service.
This is a map of school
districts reporting a decline in
public school enrollment over
the last year.
You can see its twenty one. Different
states have public school
districts who have reported a
drop in enrollment.
What do you think Adiana the
various teachers unions
perspective on this?
Do they agree with you?
Do they want their teachers to
be moved to the front of the
line and prioritized when it
comes to getting the vaccine?
Well, I would hope so because
their reasoning for keeping
schools closed is because they
didnt want to have teachers
exposed to children, possibly
bringing covid into the school
system and infecting them. One
way to solve that problem is to
get teachers. Vac sin nighted
vaccines are reportedly ninety five percent
effective,
reportedly very safe.
No reason why teachers shouldnt
be demanding this vaccine.
If they dont want it, then that
raises eyebrows
people are going to start to
wonder. Was this all political or
truly about science,
because if the vaccine is good
enough for doctors and our
frontline workers, it should be
good enough for our teachers,
and so governors right now need
to prioritize the teachers.
They are essential workers
and we need to get our kids back
into the classroom, because you
know lets also look at the
fact that kids being sedentary
staring at computer screens, six or
eight hours at home, this is causing
increase in diabetes and obesity
and other health problems,
its just a catastrophe and its
been going on since last march.
This is not like a two week
thing this has been going on for
eight month. Now.
Will the science suggests kids
arent spreading to each other
schools, arent big spreader
points and not spreading it to
adults?
I dont know that were going to
follow the science
we havent. Yet to this point,.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-01.