Phase 1A is the first vaccine distribution step. The vaccine is currently being distributed to:
- Long-term care facility residents
- Health care personnel including, but not limited to:
- Emergency medical service personnel
- Nurses
- Nursing assistants
- Physicians
- Dentists
- Dental hygienists
- Chiropractors
- Therapists
- Phlebotomists
- Pharmacists
- Technicians
- Pharmacy technicians
- Health professions students and trainees
- Direct support professionals
- Clinical personnel in school settings or correctional facilities
- Contractual HCP not directly employed by the health care facility
- Persons not directly involved in patient care but potentially exposed to infectious material that can transmit disease among or from health care personnel and patients
- Persons ages 65 and older
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Persons ages 16-64 with high-risk conditions as identified by the CDC
As part of our targeted vaccine efforts, we also are vaccinating teachers and child care workers and frontline groups that became eligible on March 31:
- Law enforcement
- Firefighters
- Grocery store employees
- Food/agriculture workers
Agriculture workers not covered under the special initiative include: horticulture, nurseries, and garden centers; forestry and hardwoods; veterinarians and veterinary services; farm supply stores; animal feed producers and stores; wood product manufacturing and paper manufacturing.
Food workers not covered under the special initiative include: food and beverage stores, warehouse clubs and supercenters, food and beverage manufacturing.
Opens April 13, 2021
All individuals not previously covered who are 16 and older and do not have a contraindication to the vaccine (note that at this time, only the Pfizer-BioNTech product is approved for those age 16 and 17)