Here’s How Hawaii Schools Will Distribute Covid Vaccines To Younger Kids … Schools will be the main staging ground for administering the vaccine after the federal government approves it for ages 5-11.
Hawaii schools will host on-campus clinics to give the Covid-19 vaccine to children ages 5-11 after its anticipated approval by the federal government, but the shots will largely be limited to students from the individual schools, the state health department says.
The school-based vaccination efforts will be an extension of the existing partnership between the Department of Health, the Department of Education and health care providers to inoculate kids ages 12-17.
But those efforts were generally open to the wider public to help facilitate efforts to get as many people vaccinated as possible amid a surge in coronavirus cases due to the delta variant. Hawaii has seen the number of cases drop in recent weeks and has inoculated 71% of the population.
