Expanded List of Vaccine-Eligible Groups

After weeks of pressuring the Cuomo Administration, they finally agreed to expand the pool of eligible vaccine recipients. Please view the list below to determine if you are eligible. Details on how to make an appointment to receive a vaccine are below. 

NEWLY ELIGIBLE:

Older Adults

• People ages 75 and older

Grocery Workers

• Public-facing grocery store workers

First Responders and Support Staff for First Responder Agencies

• Fire Service
  • State Fire Service, including firefighters and investigators (professional and volunteer)
  • Local Fire Services, including firefighters and investigators (professional and volunteer)
• Police and Investigations
  • State Police, including Troopers
  • State Park Police, DEC Police, Forest Rangers
  • SUNY Police
  • Sheriffs’ Offices
  • County Police Departments and Police Districts
  • City, Town and Village Police Departments
  • Transit of other Public Authority Police Departments
  • State Field Investigations, including Department of Motor Vehicles, State Commission of Correction, Justice Center, Department of Financial Services, Inspector General, Department of Tax and Finance, Office of Children and Family Services and State Liquor Authority
• Public Safety Communications
  • Emergency Communication and Public Safety Answering Point Personnel, including dispatchers and technicians
• Other Sworn and Civilian Personnel
  • Court Officers
  • Other Police or Peace Officers
  • Support of Civilian Staff for any of the above services, agencies or facilities

Corrections

• State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Personnel, including correction and parole officers
• Local Correctional Facilities, including correction officers
• Local Probation Departments, including probation officers
• State Juvenile Detention and Rehabilitation Facilities
• Local Juvenile Detention and Rehabilitation Facilities

P-12 Schools, College and Child Care

• P-12 school or school district faculty or staff (includes all teachers, substitute teachers, student teachers, school administrators, paraprofessional staff and support staff including bus drivers)
• Contractors working in a P-12 school or school district (including contracted bus drivers)
• In-person college instructors
• Licensed, registered, approved or legally exempt group child care
• Licensed, registered, approved or legally exempt group child care providers
• Employees or support staff of licensed or registered child care setting
• Licensed, registered, approved or legally exempt child care providers

Public Transit

• Airline and airport employees
• Passenger railroad employees
• Subway and mass transit employees (MTA, LIRR, Metro North, NYC Transit, Upstate Transit)
• Ferry employees
• Port Authority employees
• Public bus employees

Homeless Shelters

• People living in a homeless shelter where sleeping, bathing or eating accommodations must be shared with people who are not part of their household
• People working (paid or unpaid) in a homeless shelter where sleeping, bathing or eating accommodations must be shared by people who are not part of the same household, in a position where there is potential for interaction with shelter residents

PREVIOUSLY (AND STILL) ELIGIBLE:

Health Care Workers

• High-risk hospital workers (emergency room workers, ICU staff and Pulmonary Department staff)
• Federally Qualified Health Center employees
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers
• Coroners, medical examiners and certain funeral workers
• Urgent Care providers
• People administering COVID-19 vaccines, including local health department staff
• All Outpatient/Ambulatory frontline, high-risk health care workers of any age who provide direct in-person patient care
• All staff who are in direct contact with patients (such as reception staff)
• All frontline, high-risk public health workers who have direct contact with patients, including those conducting COVID-19 tests, handling COVID-19 specimens and COVID-19 vaccinations

 This includes, but is not limited to:

• Doctors who work in private medical practices and their staff
• Doctors who work in hospital-affiliated medical practices and their staff
• Doctors who work in public health clinics and their staff
• Registered Nurses
• Specialty medical practices of all types
• Dentists and Orthodontists and their staff
• Psychiatrists and Psychologists and their staff
• Physical Therapists and their staff
• Optometrists and their staff
• Pharmacists and Pharmacy Aides
• Home care workers
• Hospice workers

Residents and Staff in Certain Group Living Facilities

• Nursing homes and other congregate care facilities
• NYS Office of Mental Health, Office People with Developmental Disabilities, and Office of Addiction Services and Supports facilities