Beginning Monday all essential workers will be eligible for the COVID vaccine. Governor John Bel Edwards made the announcement Thursday. The list includes grocery store, food service, and postal workers.
“These individuals have carried our state through these most trying times and we want to make sure they have the ability to get the vaccine if they are not already eligible,” said Edwards.
The list of professions also includes hotel, construction, manufacturing, energy, emergency preparedness workers, and media.
Edwards said this is the last group to be eligible before the vaccine is available for all residents 16 and older and he believes that will happen before President Biden’s May 1st directive. Like all other eligible groups for the vaccine, essential workers will have to schedule appointments, identify themselves as eligible workers and provide documentation.
“They will need to present an ID badge, paystub, a letter from their employer, something that evidences the fact that they work in these occupations that make them eligible,” said Edwards.
Essential workers eligible for vaccine beginning March 22, 2021:
Bank tellersChild, youth and family service workers, ClergyConstruction workers, Energy workers, Food and agricultural workers, Foodservice (restaurant) workers, hotel workers, and other hospitality workers, Frontline government workers, Grocery store workers, Institutes of higher education faculty/staff, communications workers, Judges, court staff, clerks of court and staff, district attorneys, and public defendersManufacturing workersMedia workers, Postal workers, Public and private security and emergency preparedness workers, Public health workers, Public safety engineers, and other workers, Transportation workers including river pilots, Veterinarians and support staff, Water and wastewater workers, Waste management workers.
