SEA CLIFF, N.Y. — A teacher in New York was arrested after she allegedly gave a minor the COVID-19 vaccine without his parents’ permission.
Police arrested Laura Russo on charges that she injected the 17-year-old when he visited her home, NBC News reported.
Russo, who is a public school teacher on Long Island, was removed from her classroom and reassigned, The New York Times reported. She taught in the Herricks Public Schools system in New Hyde Park.
Police said the teenager’s mother called them after her son told her he had gotten the vaccine, NBC News reported.
It’s unclear how Russo got the vaccine, and what type of vaccine it was. She was charged with unauthorized practice of a profession under New York State education law, NBC News reported.
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