Wisconsin Health officials announced in a press release this morning the next groups eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine starting March 1.
The groups that will qualify include the following:
- Education and child care
- All staff in regulated child care, public and private school programs, out-of-school time programs, virtual
- All staff in Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA
- All staff in preschool and Head Start through K-12 education settings
- Faculty and staff in higher education settings who have direct student contact
- Medical and long-term care
- IRIS
- Family Care
- Katie Beckett and Children's Long Term Care Wavier, when the member's age allows them to qualify for the vaccine
- Public-facing essential workers
- 911 operators
- Utility and communications infrastructure
- Public transit
- Food supply chain
- Non-frontline health care workers
- Staff who perform essential roles within health care organizations by maintaining cyber security; perform cleaning functions; scheduling, critical HVAC functions, health care critical supply chain functions
- Congregate living
- Employer-based
- Housing serving the elderly people or disabilities
- Shelters for those who are homeless or in need of refuge
- Transitional housing
- Incarcerated individuals
- Mink farmers
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