No vaccines = no school

PITTSBURGH (AP) — About 2,000 Pittsburgh Public Schools students are expected to miss classes again because they either don’t have proper vaccinations or haven’t proven that they do.
Allegheny County Health Department officials say about 2 percent of the county’s 180,000 students, or roughly 3,600, didn’t provide proof by Thursday’s deadline so they were barred from class. Most of those are in the Pittsburgh Public Schools which still had 2,100 students without vaccines by the end of the day Thursday.
The health department has been vaccinating thousands of students to comply with the deadline.
Pittsburgh school and county health officials are hoping nearly all students will have the vaccinations or proof of them by Monday.
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