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D.C. Grocery Store Workers Are Eligible for the Vaccine, But Restaurant Staff Have to Wait

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Filed under:Food service staff are included in Phase 1C of D.C.’s vaccination plan, which begins in MarchD.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser opened up COVID-19 vaccinations to this week, but customer-facing restaurant staff are still waiting for their turn despite being classified by the city as “essential” personnel throughout the pandemic.Starting Thursday, February 18, people in the following categories could begin for vaccine appointments: grocery store workers, manufacturing workers, food packaging workers, and workers in health and human services or social outreach. Those groups are part of the final tier within Phase 1B of the District’s .After announcing eligibility for those four groups Wednesday night, Bowser announced in her that the city would start accepting appointments for people in Phase 1C — a category that includes restaurant workers — on March 1. The announcement, though, only listed one group that would be eligible to register for vaccination: people between 16 and 64 years old who can “self-attest” that they have one of 20 chronic illnesses that could make a case of the coronavirus more dangerous for them.The plan D.C. lists food service workers as the next group behind people with qualifying medical conditions in Phase 1C Tier 1. Bowser had back in January that food service workers would be included in a category of residents with qualifying medical conditions and “other essential” workers that were for February 1 enrollment.In other words, the rollout is at least a month behind the projection. Meanwhile, the city continues to permit indoor dining — at this point as a activity — at 25 percent capacity. Food service workers in are already eligible to get vaccinated, and they starting February 24.According to figures DC Health shared Thursday, the city has delivered at least one dose of the vaccine to 50,680 people (7.2 percent of residents).Here’s a look at everyone who is eligible to get a vaccine before and after D.C. restaurant workers, the city released January 11.Sign up for our newsletter.Sign up for our newsletter.Plus, more D.C. restaurant reopenings to noteThe freshest news from the local food world

Filed under:Food service staff are included in Phase 1C of D.C.’s vaccination plan, which begins in MarchD.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser opened up COVID-19 vaccinations to this week, but customer-facing restaurant staff are still waiting for their turn despite being classified by the city as “essential” personnel throughout the pandemic.Starting Thursday, February 18, people in the following categories could begin for vaccine appointments: grocery store workers, manufacturing workers, food packaging workers, and workers in health and human services or social outreach. Those groups are part of the...

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