For more information about the Phased Covid Distribution Plan go to https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/phased-distribution-vaccine

The first New Yorker’s to receive the vaccine as part of Phase 1 will be:

• High-risk hospital workers (emergency room workers, ICU staff and Pulmonary Department staff)
• Nursing home residents and staff
• Federally Qualified Health Center employees
• EMS workers
• Coroners, medical examiners and certain funeral workers
• Staff and residents at OPWDD and OMH facilities
• Staff at New York State OASAS facilities

The priority populations will expand the week of December 28, 2020 to include:

• Urgent Care Center employees
• Individuals administering COVID-19 vaccines, including local health department staff
• Residents of OASAS facilities

Next week, we expect to open criteria to ambulatory care health care workers and public-facing public health workers.