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Roughly 17,000 city teachers asked to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the first 24 hours after being offered the shot, according to their union.
The United Federation of Teachers sent out emails to more than 100,000 members on Sunday after the group was designated a vaccine priority group.
There are roughly 75,000 classroom teachers in New York along with about 25,000 paraprofessionals and other unionized school workers.
In a Tuesday statement, a UFT spokesperson stressed that there is no deadline for members to ask for a vaccine and that the union expects to receive additional requests moving forward.
The UFT said that its vaccine program partners, NYU Langone and EmblemHealth, have made 7,000 doses available for its members.
“We have asked the providers in our program to share the total number of teachers vaccinated through this initiative,” UFT spokesman Dick Riley said. “These totals – when we get them – will not include teachers vaccinated through other programs or other providers.”
While the UFT has encouraged members to get vaccinated, the shot is not mandatory at this stage.
UFT chief Michael Mulgrew announced Sunday that UFT members were approved for vaccine priority along with the elderly, transit workers, public safety staffers and healthcare employees.
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