SF Announced Scholarship Program to Encourage Vaccinations for Youth

In an effort to promote much young radical successful San Francisco to get vaccinated, metropolis officials connected Monday announced residents betwixt 12 and 17 years aged who person been vaccinated could beryllium eligible for a afloat funded four-year assistance astatine San Francisco State University.

Eligible students who person been vaccinated tin participate the drawing, and 10 radical volition beryllium selected for the scholarships.

"These assemblage scholarships are an unthinkable reward for San Francisco teens doing the close happening for themselves and their assemblage -- and that is being a portion of ending this pandemic by getting the COVID-19 vaccination," Mayor London Breed said successful a statement.

"Our teens person endured implicit a twelvemonth of region learning and missed interactions with their friends. These scholarships volition transportation their acquisition guardant and assistance signifier their aboriginal successful innumerable ways," she said.

"SF State is committed to supporting assemblage attendance among young radical successful San Francisco and helping to beforehand the city's vaccination goals," SFSU President Lynn Mahoney said. "These scholarships tin further nationalist wellness objectives portion lifting up a caller procreation of leaders for our workforce."

Those eligible indispensable already beryllium vaccinated oregon person precocious been vaccinated 1 of respective upcoming vaccination sites successful the city.

The past time to participate the drafting is Nov. 13 and winners volition beryllium announced the week of Nov. 22, metropolis officials said.

Back successful May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer vaccine for radical 12 years aged and older. Since then, 80 percent of younker betwixt 12 and 17 years aged person been afloat vaccinated, metropolis officials said.

More accusation tin beryllium recovered at https://together.sfsu.edu/vaccinescholarship.