Shown are healthcare workers administering vaccines at the Fayette Health Department.
Beginning Feb. 8, Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Public Health is expanding the eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations. The state announced a few weeks ago that people 75 years of age and older would be eligible to receive the vaccines. The new directive makes the vaccines available for people 65 years of age and older, and frontline workers within one of the following categories:
• First responders;
• Corrections officers;
•Food and agriculture worker;
• U.S. Postal Service workers;
• Manufacturing workers;
• Grocery store workers;
• Public transit workers;
• People who work in the education sector (teachers, support staff, community college and higher education);
• Childcare workers; and
• Judiciary (including but not limited to) circuit judges, district judges and district attorneys.
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