DOE administers thousands more shots ahead of vaccine mandate deadline

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Nearly 90% of all Department of Education employees are now at least partially vaccinated after another 3,000 doses of a COVID-19 were administered to department staffers over the past two days, department officials said Wednesday. 

Now, 89% of all roughly 150,000 DOE workers have gotten at least one jab of a vaccine while 92% of all public school teachers and 97% of all public school principals have gotten at least one dose of the inoculation.