Restaurant workers in major US city eligible for coronavirus vaccine in February

Restaurant workers in at the least one major city will be capable of begin getting the COVID-19 vaccination in February. 

This week, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced at a press convention that important restaurant workers could be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination on Feb. 1. The information comes as cities grapple with COVID-19 vaccine distribution, prioritizing frontline workers, well being care workers, the aged and different high-risk teams. 

Residents residing in Virginia and Maryland who’re employed as important restaurant workers in D.C. can even be eligible for the shot, Washington City Paper’s Laura Hayes reported. 

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The vaccine rollout has been slower than anticipated for many Americans, significantly for workers who’re employed at eating places, bars and different public-facing meals trade jobs, who’ve been placing their very own well being and lives at dangers because the virus broke out in March. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested food service workers be included in spherical 1c of distribution, the second spherical of vaccines after healthcare workers. However, states finally regulate distribution. 

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For instance, meals service workers working in hospitals throughout Illinois at the moment are in a position to get COVID-19 vaccines; nonetheless, officers mentioned Tuesday restaurant workers will nonetheless have to attend till subsequent month, per Eater Chicago. (Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had additionally publicly said that the city didn’t have sufficient doses of the vaccine.) And in New York, restaurant workers are grouped into phase four of the vaccination rollout, which goals to innoculate “all other essential workers” as properly.