COVID-19 VACCINE INFORMATION BY STATE

 

Alabama

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare providers
  • Nursing home residents
  • Law enforcement officers
  • Firefighters
  • Persons age 75 and older

COVID-19 Response Website

alcovidvaccine.gov/

Alaska

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • People 65 years and above
  • People 50 years and above who have high-risk medical conditions
  • People 50 years and above who must work within 6 feet of others as an essential worker
  • PreK-12 Education and Childcare staff
  • People living or working in congregate settings
  • Long term care facility staff and residents
  • Hospital-based frontline health care workers and hospital personnel
  • Frontline EMS and Fire Service personnel providing medical services
  • Community Health Aides/Practitioners
  • Pandemic response staff who may come into contact with the SARS-CoV-2 virus during outbreak response activities.
  • Health care workers providing COVID vaccinations
  • Workers in health care settings who make patient contact

COVID-19 Response Website

dhss.alaska.gov

Arizona

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare and EMS workers
  • Long-term care facility residents & staff
  • Adults 65 and Older
  • K-12 Teachers and Staff
  • Childcare workers
  • Law Enforcement/Protective Services Workers

COVID-19 Response Website

azdhs.gov

Arkansas

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • 65 or older
  • Those who work in education including K-12, child care and higher education
  • Health care workers
  • Residents and staff at long-term care facilities
  • EMS, fire and law enforcement who serve as first responders
  • Primary care, urgent care, college/university student health center, K-12 health clinics and school nurses
  • Dental clinics, pharmacies, home health, private care/personal care, hospice care, dialysis centers, correctional staff involved in patient care and transfer
  • Morticians/funeral home staff involved in direct contact or conducting transports and blood donation centers

COVID-19 Response Website

healthy.arkansas.gov

California

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare workers
  • Long-term care residents
  • Individuals 65 and older
  • Sector populations:
    • Agriculture and food
    • Education and childcare
    • Emergency services
  • Beginning March 15, healthcare providers may use their clinical judgement to vaccinate individuals aged 16-64 who are high risk

COVID-19 Response Website

covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/

Colorado

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • People age 60 or older
  • Frontline essential agricultural and grocery store workers
  • People age age 16-59 with two or more high risk conditions
  • Highest risk health care workers and individuals
  • Moderate risk healthcare workers and first responders
  • PK-12 educators
  • Child care workers in licensed child care programs

COVID-19 Response Website

covid19.colorado.gov

Connecticut

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare personnel
  • Medical first responders
  • Long-term care facility residents and staff
  • Individuals 65 years and older
  • Educators and childcare providers
  • Individuals 55-64 years old

COVID-19 Response Website

portal.ct.gov/Coronavirus

Delaware

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare personnel
  • Long-term care residents/staff
  • People 65 of age and older
  • Frontline essential workers including fire, police, and correctional officers
  • Teachers and education staff
  • U.S. postal workers, food manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, and grocery store workers

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.delaware.gov/

Florida

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • 65 years of age and older
  • Health care personnel with direct patient contact
  • Residents and staff of long-term care facilities

COVID-19 Response Website

floridahealthcovid19.gov

Georgia

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare workers
  • Residents and staff of long-term care facilities
  • Adults aged 65 and older
  • Law enforcement, firefighters, first responders

COVID-19 Response Website

dph.georgia.gov

Hawaii

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • 75 years and older
  • Medical personnel and essential frontline workers like first responders, educators, public transit workers, food production, grocery store workers will be contacted by their employers to schedule their covid-19 vaccination

COVID-19 Response Website

hawaiicovid19.com

Idaho

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • People 65 years and above
  • Healthcare personnel
  • Child and protective services workers
  • People who work in contact with the public
  • Funeral home workers
  • Correctional and detention center staff
  • Home care providers, hospital staff essential workers
  • PK-12 educators

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.idaho.gov

Illinois

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare personnel
  • Residents of long-term care facilities
  • Persons aged 65 or older
  • Non-healthcare frontline essential workers

COVID-19 Response Website

dph.illinois.gov/covid19

Indiana

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare personnel
  • Residents of long-term care facilities
  • Persons aged 65 or older
  • Non-healthcare frontline essential workers

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.in.gov

Iowa

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • People 65 and older
  • First responders
  • PK-12 school staff and educators
  • Food agriculture workers
  • Individuals with disabilities living in home settings
  • Staff of and individuals living in group homes
  • Government officials
  • Inspectors of hospitals
  • Long-term care facilities
  • Child safety, correctional facility staff and individuals incarcerated

COVID-19 Response Website

idph.iowa.gov

Kansas

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare workers
  • Residents or patients in Longterm care (LTC),
    senior housing or LTC-supported independent living
  • Workers critical to pandemic response continuity
  • Aged 16-64 with severe medical risks
  • Persons Aged 65+
  • Congregate settings
  • High-contact critical workers

COVID-19 Response Website

kansasvaccine.gov

Kentucky

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Long term care facilities
  • Assisted living facilities
  • Health care personnel
  • First responder
  • Kentucky K-12 school personnel
  • Kentucky child care workers
  • Anyone age 60 or older
  • Anyone age 16 or older with CDC highest risk C19 risk conditions
  • All essential workers

COVID-19 Response Website

govstatus.egov.com/kycovid19

Louisiana

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Persons 65 and older
  • Dialysis providers and patients
  • Ambulatory and outpatient providers and staff
  • Home care providers
  • American Sign Language (ASL) and foreign language interpreters and Support Service Providers (SSPs) working in community and clinic-based settings
  • Clients who are both deaf and blind, health-related personnel, Pregnant people, teachers and any other support staff working on site in K-12 or daycare
  • Individuals ages 55-64 with an increased risk of severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19

COVID-19 Response Website

ldh.la.gov/covidvaccine

Maine

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • 70 and older
  • Adults with high-risk medical conditions
  • Critical frontline workers
  • Health care, public safety, and critical COVID-19 infrastructure personnel should contact their employer or their professional associations to learn how to get a vaccine

COVID-19 Response Website

maine.gov

Maryland

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • All licensed, registered and certified health care providers
  • Front line hospital staff
  • Nursing home residents and staff
  • Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
  • Assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and developmentally disabled group homes, and other congregate facilities
  • Law enforcement and firefighters, EMS
  • Education staff, including K-12 teachers, support staff and daycare providers
  • Correctional health care staff and officers
  • Public safety workers not covered in Phase 1A
  • Health care workers not covered in Phase 1A, including but not limited to lab services, public health, vaccine manufacturing and other health care professions
  • Front line judiciary staff
  • Continuity of government
  • Food/agriculture production, critical manufacturing
  • U.S. Postal Service, public mass transit, grocery store employees
  • Veterinarians and support staff
  • Clergy and other essential support for houses of worship
  • Adults age 65 and older
  • Individuals who are currently receiving hospital-based treatment, including in hospital outpatient centers, AND diagnosed with at least one of the following conditions:
    • Cancer patients who are currently in active treatment
    • End stage renal disease patients requiring hemodialysis
    • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
    • Solid organ transplant recipients
    • Sickle cell disease patients
    • Diabetic patients (Type 1 and Type 2)

COVID-19 Response Website

covidlink.maryland.gov

Massachusetts

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • People 65 and over
  • People with more than 2 underlying conditions
  • Healthcare workers
  • First responders
  • Low-income and affordable senior housing residents and staff Long-term care settings, congregate care settings

COVID-19 Response Website

www.mass.gov

Michigan

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • 65 and older
  • Essential workers including school and child care staff
  • Frontline responders, and corrections staff

COVID-19 Response Website

michigan.gov/coronavirus

Minnesota

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Adults age 65 and older
  • Educators (pre-kindergarten through grade 12), school staff, and child care workers.

COVID-19 Response Website

mn.gov/covid19

Mississippi

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Staff and employees in K-12 preschool or childcare settings
  • Law enforcement, public safety, fire services and emergency management officials
  • Adults aged 65 and older
  • Anyone 16 to 64 years old with a chronic health condition that may put them at higher risk from COVID-19
  • Qualifying health conditions:
    • Cancer Chronic kidney disease
    • COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
    • Down Syndrome
    • Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
    • Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant
    • Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30 kg/m2 or higher but less than 40 kg/m2)
    • Severe Obesity (BMI 40 kg/m2 or higher)
    • Pregnancy
    • Sickle cell disease
    • Smoking
    • Diabetes
    • Or other medical conditions as determined by your medical provider
  • Long-term care facility residents and staff
  • Healthcare personnel and EMT/paramedics

COVID-19 Response Website

msdh.ms.gov

Missouri

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Public Health Administrators and Staff
  • Law Enforcement
  • Fire Services
  • Corrections
  • Emergency Management
  • Public Works
  • Emergency Services
  • Anyone 65 and older
  • Any adults with:
    • Cancer
    • Chronic Kidney Disease
    • COPD
    • Heart Conditions
    • Weakened immune system due to organ transplant
    • Severe obesity (BMI >40)
    • Pregnancy
    • Sickle Cell Disease
    • Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
    • Individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities such as Down Syndrome
  • Education (K-12)
  • Childcare
  • Communications Infrastructure
  • Dams Sector
  • Energy Sector
  • Food & Agriculture Sector 1
  • Government
  • Information Technology
  • Nuclear Reactor Sector
  • Transportation Systems
  • Water and Wastewater Systems

COVID-19 Response Website

covidvaccine.mo.gov

Montana

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Frontline healthcare workers
  • Long-term care and assisted care living facilities
  • Healthcare workers with direct patient contact or virus exposure
  • People aged 70 and over
  • American Indians and other people of color at elevated risk for COVID-19 complications
  • Persons age 16-69 with high-risk medical condition

COVID-19 Response Website

covid19.mt.gov

Nebraska

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Adults 65 and older
  • Certain frontline workers like teachers and first responders
  • Health care workers and residents and staff of nursing homes and assisted living facilities

COVID-19 Response Website

dhhs.ne.gov

Nevada

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Health Care Workforce and Support
  • Public Safety and Security, including first responders
  • Essential Airport Operations
  • Resort/Casino Security Staff
  • Continuity of Governance
  • Grocery Store Workers

COVID-19 Response Website

nvhealthresponse.nv.gov

New Hampshire

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • At-risk health workers
  • Residents of long-term care facilities and first responders
  • Persons ≥65
  • The medically vulnerable
  • Intellectual and developmental disability residential facilities
  • Correctional facility staff
  • Remaining health workers and first responders
  • Phase 2a includes at-risk staff who work in New Hampshire K-12 schools, licensed childcare facilities, and licensed youth camps
  • Phase 2b includes persons 50 – 64 years of age

COVID-19 Response Website

www.nh.gov/covid19

New Jersey

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Paid and unpaid healthcare workers
  • Residents and workers of long-term care and high-risk congregate care facilities
  • First responders including sworn law enforcement and fire professionals
  • Individuals aged over 65
  • Individuals aged 16-64 that have certain medical conditions that increase the risk of severe illness from the virus

Beginning March 15th, the following groups will be eligible to book vaccine appointments:

  • Pre-K to 12 educators and staff
  • Childcare workers
  • Transportation workers
  • Additional public safety workers
  • Additional high-risk individuals

COVID-19 Response Website

covid19.nj.gov

New Mexico

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Hospital personnel
  • Residents and staff of long-term care facilities
  • Medical first responders
  • Congregate setting workers
  • Persons providing direct medical care and other in-person services
  • Home-based health care and hospice workers
  • People 75+
  • People 16+ at risk of COVID complications

COVID-19 Response Website

cv.nmhealth.org

New York

Who Qualifies Right Now?

Very extensive list can be found at this link. 

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.health.ny.gov

North Carolina

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Health care workers
  • Long-term care staff and residents
  • Anyone 65 years or older, regardless of health status or living situation

COVID-19 Response Website

covid19.ncdhhs.gov

North Dakota

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Health care workers in direct contact with COVID-19
  • First responders
  • Long-term care residents and staff
  • Persons age 75 and older
  • Persons age 65 – 74 with two or more high-risk medical conditions
  • Staff and persons living in other congregate settings (i.e., corrections, group homes, treatment centers, homeless shelters, etc.)
  • Persons age 65 and older with one or more high-risk medical conditions
  • Persons age 65 and older with or without high-risk medical conditions
  • Child care workers
  • Workers employed by preschools or Kindergarten through 12th grade: Teachers, nutritional services, aides, bus drivers, principals, administrative staff, custodians, etc.
  • National Guard, not previously covered
  • Workers enabling access to human food (i.e., grocery workers), not including restaurant workers
  • Public safety answering points (911)
  • Manufacturing related to the development or supply of COVID-19 vaccine
  • Other healthcare/public health workers not included in phase 1A
  • Free standing clinical laundries
  • Public transit, including bus, taxi, ride-share
  • Persons 16 years of age or older with one or more high-risk medical conditions
  • Blood bank workers not previously vaccinated
  • Information Technology
  • All other essential workers per Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

COVID-19 Response Website

health.nd.gov

Ohio

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare workers and personnel who are routinely involved in the care of COVID-19 patients
  • Residents and staff in nursing homes
  • Residents and staff in assisted living facilities
  • Patients and staff at state psychiatric hospitals
  • People with developmental disabilities and those with mental health disorders, including substance use disorders, who live in group homes, residential facilities, or centers, and staff at those locations
  • Residents and staff at our two state-run homes for Ohio veterans
  • EMS responders
  • Adults/employees in K-12 schools that want to go back, or to remain, educating in person
  • Ohioans, age 65 and up
  • Ohioans born with or who have early childhood conditions that are carried into adulthood which put them at a higher risk for adverse outcomes due to COVID-19

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.ohio.gov

Oklahoma

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare workers including expanded healthcare worker groups such as allied health fields and general outpatient health service (i.e. behavioral health, dentists)
  • First responders
  • Oklahomans age 65+
  • Oklahomans under age 65 with comorbidities
  • Teachers and staff in PreK-12 schools

COVID-19 Response Website

oklahoma.gov

Oregon

Who Qualifies Right Now?

Extensive list can be found at this link.

COVID-19 Response Website

govstatus.egov.com

Pennsylvania

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Long-term care facility residents
  • Health care personnel including, but not limited to:
    • Emergency medical service personnel
    • Nurses
    • Nursing assistants
    • Physicians
    • Dentists
    • Dental hygienists
    • Chiropractors
    • Therapists
    • Phlebotomists
    • Pharmacists
    • Technicians
    • Pharmacy technicians
    • Health professions students and trainees
    • Direct support professionals
    • Clinical personnel in school settings or correctional facilities
    • Contractual HCP not directly employed by the health care facility
  • Persons not directly involved in patient care but potentially exposed to infectious material that can transmit disease among or from health care personnel and patients
  • Persons ages 65 and older
  • Persons ages 16-64 with high-risk conditions:
    • Cancer
    • Chronic kidney disease
    • COPD
    • Down Syndrome
    • Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
    • Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant or from blood or bone marrow transplant, immune deficiencies, HIV, use of corticosteroids, or use of other immune weakening medicines
    • Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30 kg/m2 or higher but < 40 kg/m2)
    • Severe Obesity (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m2)
    • Pregnancy
    • Sickle cell disease
    • Smoking
    • Type 2 diabetes mellitus

COVID-19 Response Website

www.health.pa.gov

Rhode Island

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare workers
  • First responders
  • Congregate settings
  • People 75 years old and older

COVID-19 Response Website

covid.ri.gov

South Carolina

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare providers
  • Nursing home residents
  • Law enforcement officers
  • Firefighters
  • Persons age 75 and older

COVID-19 Response Website

scdhec.gov/covid19

South Dakota

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Frontline Healthcare Workers (working in an emergency department, ICU, COVID unit, or general acute care)
  • Long-Term Care Facility Healthcare Workers, long-term care residents
  • Other healthcare workers including laboratory and clinic staff
  • Public Health Workers
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Law Enforcement
  • Correctional Officers
  • Persons Aged 65 Years and Older
  • High Risk Patients – dialysis,
    post-transplant, and active cancer
  • High Risk Residents in Congregate Settings, Residents in Licensed Independent Living Facilities, and Residents of Licensed Group Homes

COVID-19 Response Website

doh.sd.gov/COVID

Tennessee

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Inpatient health care workers
  • All other health care workers
  • Other health care workers with high-risk exposure to COVID-19
  • Funeral home and mortuary service workers
  • Residents and staff members of long-term health care facilities
  • People age 18 and over who are not able to live independently due to health care conditions or developmental or intellectual disability
  • First responders

COVID-19 Response Website

tn.gov

Texas

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Front-line healthcare workers and residents at long-term care facilities
  • People 65+ or people 16+ with a health condition that increases risk of severe COVID‑19 illness, including but not limited to:
    • Cancer
    • Chronic kidney disease
    • COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
    • Down Syndrome
    • Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
    • Organ transplantation
    • Obesity
    • Pregnancy
    • Sickle cell disease
    • Type 2 diabetes

COVID-19 Response Website

dshs.state.tx.us

Utah

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare workers
  • Long-term care facility staff and residents
  • First responders
  • Ages 65 and older
  • K-12 teachers and school staff
  • Ages 16 and older with certain underlying medical conditions

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.utah.gov

Vermont

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Long-term care facility residents
  • Health care personnel
  • K-12 teachers and onsite staff
  • Childcare, and expanded public safety
  • People 65 and up
  • People 55 and up with high-risk conditions
  • Inviduals 16 and up with certain high-risk conditions

COVID-19 Response Website

healthvermont.gov/covid-19

Virginia

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare personnel
  • Residents of long-term care facilities, persons aged 65 or older
  • Non-healthcare frontline essential workers
  • People ages 16-64 with underlying conditions
  • People living in congregated areas

COVID-19 Response Website

vdh.virginia.gov

Washington

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • High-risk healthcare workers in health care settings
  • High-risk first responders
  • Long-term care facility residents
  • All other workers at risk in health care settings
  • All people 65 years or older
  • All people 50 years or older in multigenerational households (home where individuals from 2 or more generations reside such as an elder and a grandchild)
  • High-risk critical workers 50 years or older who work in certain congregate settings:
    • Agriculture; food processing
    • Grocery stores
    • K-12(educators & staff)
    • Childcare
    • Corrections; prisons, jails or detention centers
    • Public transit
    • Fire
    • Law enforcement

COVID-19 Response Website

doh.wa.gov

Washington D.C.

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Long Term Care Residents
  • Healthcare Personnel (including
    veterinary medicine)
  • Fire & Emergency Medical Personnel
  • Frontline Public Health Workers
  • DC Residents age 65 years and older
  • Congregate Settings
  • Correctional Officers
  • Staff working in Congregate Settings
  • Non-healthcare personnel supporting operations of COVID-19 vaccination clinics
  • Correctional Facilities and Detention centers
  • Law Enforcement/Public Safety
  • All staff working in K-12 educational facilities
  • All staff working in child care facilities
  • All staff working in grocery stores

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.dc.gov

West Virginia

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • People 65 years and older
  • Frontline workers
  • Teachers age 50 and older
  • Healthcare workers

COVID-19 Response Website

coronavirus.wv.gov

Wisconsin

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Frontline healthcare personnel
  • Residents of long-term care facilities
  • Law enforcment and first responders
  • Adults age 65 and older
  • Educators including child care
  • Individuals enrolled in Medicaid long-term care programs
  • Public facing essential workers
  • Non-frontline health care workers
  • People in congregate living facilities

COVID-19 Response Website

www.dhs.wisconsin.gov

Wyoming

Who Qualifies Right Now?

  • Healthcare providers, first responders
  • Long-term care facility staff and others at high risk for exposure to COVID-19
  • Frontline essential workers
  • Individuals 65 and over
  • Individuals with certain medical conditions
  • Homeless individuals
  • People living in congregate setting

COVID-19 Response Website

health.wyo.gov

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