Childcare workers need immediate access to COVID-19 vaccine

MEDIA RELEASE

December 17, 2020

Child care workers are essential workers and need priority access to the
COVID vaccine.

MORGAN HILL, CA. Priority access to vaccines needs to be granted to child
care workers. As the largest non-profit child care provider in
California, Catalyst Kids is calling for the state to prioritize vaccinating child
care staff.

For the safety of our children, communities, and essential workers, we must
create a plan-of-action to get child care workers vaccinated, and soon. A
recent Yale study concluded that child care centers did not associate with an
elevated risk of COVID exposure. Let’s work to make our center even safer,
and to protect child care workers, by supporting the vaccinating of all child
care staff.

“Our staff have done and continued to do an excellent job at keeping
children, essential workers, and families safe. It is now time to give them
priority in receiving a vaccine to further ensure everyone’s safety,” said
Susan Dumars, President of Catalyst Kids.

Safe childcare options will be vital in our economy making a return, and we
must prioritize doing so in the safest ways possible. We believe we must
vaccinate our child care staff, and soon.

Michelle Hoffmann, [email protected], 669.286.7162