School teams previously vaccinated with leftover vaccines
A phone call from the GGD that there were vaccines left and suddenly a large part of the school team of De Vlindertuin in Roosendaal had been vaccinated weeks earlier. “It went wild in the Whatsapp group: 'I want, I want, I want'' A GP in Haaften also did not throw away the vaccine, he used it for team members of the OBS Koning Willem Alexanderschool.
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He has received his Moderna shot and that makes group 7 teacher Eldert de Freyn feel more reassured. “I had no idea yet when I would be vaccinated, but that is now the case weeks earlier. I like it because I am always in contact with many students.”
About two weeks ago, he and about six other colleagues were vaccinated. “It mainly concerned the younger teachers of the late 80s and early 90s,” says De Freyn. The rest had already been vaccinated or had a call in. School director Marieke Verhulst received a call from the GGD that every day there are vaccines left over that would otherwise be thrown away. Whether colleagues were interested. They would then be called at the end of the afternoon if there were any jabs left.
Happiness
De Freyn: "There was a lot of enthusiasm, because in the Whatsapp group one message after another came in with: I want." The teacher was on his way home when he got a phone call. “I was three minutes away from the vaccination site at the time and went straight there.” His colleagues also came and so they all sat in the room where everyone has to sit for another fifteen minutes after the injection. A colleague who was unable to attend on Friday also had an injection on Saturday. The teacher thinks that a total of about six or seven colleagues have been vaccinated before. “That is being lucky.”
I was three minutes from the vaccination site at that time and went straight to it
Press officer Linda Vlaming of the GGD West Brabant also calls it 'pure luck'. “It is absolutely not a standard policy, there are strict guidelines. The day coordinator of a location considers what to do with the vaccines. So I know that one day they were poking close to a school and few people were reachable. Based on the idea that we don't want to throw anything away, we find a school a good choice. Also because an entire class has to be quarantined if a teacher or master has to stay at home."
Rust
In Haaften, Gelderland, substitute school director Etelka Leushuis of the primary school Koning Willem Alexander unexpectedly received an injection along with three other colleagues, including one from another school. Her team consists of nine people and so suddenly a significant part had previously been vaccinated.
"Actually, I was very shocked, because the GP came in in full uniform to ask who wanted to be vaccinated," says the school director. “He did say right away that it concerns the less popular Astra Zeneca vaccine. Some colleagues preferred not to. Another said: Oh, if I had been there Friday I would have done it.”
At Leushuis school, only group 6/7 has been quarantined once and there was a test street at school. Leushuis herself is finished with this vaccination, because she has had corona before. “The doctor said he allowed us to.”
