Teaneck Public Schools, Holy Name Partner For Vaccine Clinic

TEANECK, NJ — Holy Name Medical Center and Teaneck Public Schools are partnering for a free COVID-19 vaccine clinic for students in the district, officials announced.

The clinic will administer Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Teaneck Public Schools students only, who are older than 5-years-old. Children under 18 must be accompanied by a parent.

This clinic is scheduled for Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 1315 Taft Rd., in Teaneck.

The second dose clinic will be held on Dec. 21 at the same time.

Registration is required for the clinic. For the link to schedule an appointment, click here.

This comes after days of questions about a new variant of COVID-19.

The WHO classified a new COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529, as a variant of concern and named the new strain Omicron. This classification comes from a specimen that was detected on November 9th in South Africa.

Read more: Omicron Variant of COVID-19, What We Know and What We Don't