Food and agricultural workers will join people 75 and over in the next group to get vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic after health care workers and nursing home residents.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 13-1 in favor of the plan put forth by an ACIP work group, which puts the nation's approximately 30 million frontline essential workers and 19 million persons aged 75 and over in Phase 1B.
“Grocery store workers” and those in “food and agriculture” and “manufacturing” also are specifically listed in the second phase.