COLUMBUS – Columbus City Schools is partnering up with Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Columbus Public Health to offer COVID-19 vaccine clinics for students ages 5-11 at every one of the district’s elementary schools in December and January.
First doses will be administered between Dec. 13 and 17 and second doses Jan. 3 through 7.
The shots are only for the younger children.
Parents must complete and return a consent form no later than Dec. 7.
Questions can be directed to school nurses.
GOP-majority Ohio court chosen to consider Biden vaccine mandate
Thanks to a ping-pong ball, a federal court in Cincinnati with a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents will decide the fate of President Joe Biden’s mandate that larger employers require workers to be vaccinated.
Republican-led states, businesses and conservative groups are challenging the rule, saying it’s not the role of the federal government to decide on workplace vaccines.
Unions are also going to court to say the rule doesn’t go far enough.
The challenges were combined Tuesday under the Cincinnati-based U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals by a judge drawing a ping-pong ball from a drum
The divisions between the courts in play are stark based on whether a majority of judges were nominated by Republican or Democratic presidents.