65+, First Responders, Essential Workers
Why we prioritize these Groups?
➔ Residents 65 and older are at a higher risk of developing severe illness if they contract the virus
- Higher potential of having underlying health conditions
➔ The frontline essential workers designation includes many residents who carry a higher risk of COVID-19 exposure because of their work duties, often because they are unable to work from home, and/or they must work closely to others without being able to socially distance.
- This includes first responders
- Educators (k-12)
- food and agriculture
- manufacturing
- corrections workers and inmates
- USPS workers
- public transit workers
- grocery store workers
- staff at shelters and day cares.