Ag officials want farm workers moved up on COVID-19 vaccine priority list
Story Date: 2/25/2021

 

Source: WLOS, 2/24/21


There's a push to make agriculture workers a higher priority when it comes to getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Ag workers are critical to the economy, and moving them closer to the head of the line is important, state officials said. In his annual address Wednesday, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler called for farmers, meat processors and more to be included in Group 3 as frontline essential workers, but that's a large group.

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