WS/FC schools employees receive vaccination at fairgrounds 

Published 12:00 am Thursday, March 4, 2021

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools employees received vaccine as part of Group 3 of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Saturday at Forsyth County Department of Public Health’s mass vaccination site at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Education Building.

WS/FCS employees were most of the 1,500 scheduled appointments at the mass vaccination site on Saturday. Novant Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health provided additional staffing and vaccine as part of their partnership with Forsyth Public Health to vaccinate school employees. WS/FCS scheduled the appointments for school employees. WS/FCS and private schools will continue to schedule appointments for their employees that will take place at the fairgrounds or at Novant Health’s mass vaccination site at Hanes Mall.

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Norma Benavides, a teacher at Speas Global Elementary School, receives her vaccination from Dr. John Petty, a surgeon with Wake Forest Baptist Health, on Saturday at Forsyth County Public Health’s mass vaccination site at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Education Building.