LEXINGTON, Ky. — Public schools in Fayette county are offering several COVID-19 vaccination clinics this week. 

What You Need To Know

  • Fayette County Public Schools offers multiple COVID-19 vaccine drives

  • It's a push to get students and people in the community to get vaccinated

  • The clinics are open from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. until Thursday

  • Second doses will be offered at the end of this month

 

It’s a push to get students and people in the community to get vaccinated.

“I'm getting my second vaccination,” said 13-year-old Naelee Hagen.

She’s getting the COVID-19 vaccine so she can be safe with her friends, family and during practice.

“So I go to dance, and a lot of my dance friends have gotten both of the vaccinations,” Hagen said.

There’s an added incentive for her to be vaccinated.

“If we get them, then we get to dance with no mask,” Hagen said.

The teen said it’s not easy to dance with a mask.

“Very hard, you get really hot, and it's really hard to breathe, because you're just so out of breath most of the time,” Hagen said.

On Tuesday, Hagen rolled up her sleeve along with other students from Fayette County Public Schools.

The school district is hosting a Shot-A-Thon this week for students 12-years-old and up.

Frederick Douglass High School Principal Lester Diaz said these clinics are extremely important in helping reopen open schools.

“So having students that are vaccinated and having a large percentage of our community with the immunity will help mitigate the need for us to close down the school, or close down a classroom or closed down several students, due to quarantining,” Diaz said.

Over a dozen schools in the district are offering the Pfizer shot through Thursday.

“It's very easy for a principal like myself to tell my students I care about you guys, I want the best for you guys but when we do things like this it's proof,” Diaz said. “It's evidence that we do care about our students, we do care about our community and we do want the best for them.”

Second doses will be offered at the end of this month. 

FCPS said people who receive both doses before the first week of school may not have to quarantine if they are exposed to COVID-19 in the future. 

The clinics are open from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. until Thursday.

The school district is also offering incentives to those who roll up their sleeves. Participants are eligible to receive two free tickets to a future Lexington Legends game and also will be entered into a drawing for the 'Total Legends Experience.'

That package includes free parking, a tour of Whitaker Bank Ballpark, batting practice and several other opportunities. Plus participants will be entered into a drawing to win four UK football season tickets.

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