HINGHAM — As early as Friday, middle and high-school students in Hingham could receive their first COVID-19 vaccinations.
Superintendent Paul Austin said, during a Monday school committee meeting, that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education offered to host vaccine clinics at schools so long as they could guarantee 35 people showed up.
“We did survey all the parents, aged 12 and up, to see if anybody was interested,” Austin said. “We got a remarkable response, of over 400 students wanting to participate.”
Austin said he filed the application with the state and he expects, tentatively, for the first clinics to be held on Friday at the middle and high schools.
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The vaccines would be administered in the early morning at the middle school and in the afternoon at the high school, after students finished their state-mandated standardized tests.
Austin said he is moving so quickly so that the second dose of the vaccine can be administered before students leave for the summer break.
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Parents should expect to receive permission slips and information within the next few days of how their can allow their children to participate in the vaccination program, Austin said.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration previously cleared the way for children as young as 12 to receive Pfizer’s…
