
As more and more people become eligible to receive their COVID-19 vaccines, you may be wondering when you can receive yours. Below is a current list of everyone who is eligible to receive divided by state.

Alabama
- Frontline health workers, including clinical and non-clinical, in hospitals, nursing homes, or those providing in in-home or mental health care directly
- Workers in other healthcare settings providing services with a risk of exposure to fluids and aerosols
- Critical workers at highest risk for work-related exposure
- Persons in identified age groups at risk for COVID 19 associated morbidity and mortality
- Sign Up to be notified when eligible:
https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/notify
Arkansas
- 65 year of age or older
- Police, fire, EMS, or other first responders
- Corrections Officer
- Food and Agriculture employees
- Education
- Essential Government
- Grocery Store/Meal Delivery
- People with intellectual or developmental disabilities
- Postal/Package delivery service
- Public Transit employees
- Houses of Worship employees
- Manufacturing
- Health Care Workers
- Residents and staff at long-term care facilities
- 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
Florida
- Long-term care facility residents and staff
- Persons 65 years of age and older
- Persons under 65 deemed medically vulnerable by a physician
- Health care personnel with direct patient contact
- K-12 school employees 50 years of age and older
- Sworn law enforcement officers 50 years of age and older
- Firefighters 50 years of age and older
- Pre-register: https://myvaccine.fl.gov/
- For updates about the vaccine and distribution, text FLCOVID19 to 888777
Georgia
- Individuals 65 years of age and older and their caretakers
- Healthcare Personnel
- Adults with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities & their Caregivers
- EMS Personnel & 911 operators
- Pre-K, K-12, and DECAL licensed or Exempt childcare programs educators and staff
- Long-Term Care Facility Residents & Staff
- https://myvaccinegeorgia.com/en/site/ALL
- This website lists state-supported COVID-19 vaccination sites. Vaccines are available by appointment only. Individuals will be contacted with more information on making an appointment.
- * Site opens on 3/17. Pre-registration is available now. Emails will be sent to eligible pre-registrants beginning on 3/10 to schedule vaccination appointments.
- Fulton County residents over age 65 and those who do not have Internet access may call 404-613-8150 from 8 am to 5:30 pm on weekdays for more information about the vaccine. Call volume is high at peak times. If you are not able to get through, please try again later.
Maryland
- 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 an inactive 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)
- Individuals who are diagnosed with these medical conditions but are not currently receiving hospital-based treatment, including in-hospital outpatient centers, will be eligible to receive the vaccine in Maryland’s Phase 2 COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
- If you have questions about COVID-19 that are not answered here, call your local health department or dial 2-1-1.
Mississippi
- Teachers, staff, and employees in K-12, preschool, or childcare settings
- First responders: Law enforcement, public safety, fire services, and emergency management officials
- Adults aged 50 and older. Adults in this age group can be vaccinated at drive-through locations or at some private healthcare providers.
- Anyone 16 to 49 years old with a chronic health condition that may put them at higher risk from COVID-19. (18 or older at the drive-through sites.) Qualifying health conditions: Cancer; Chronic Kidney Disease; COPD, Down Syndrome; Heart Conditions; Immunocompromised state; Obesity; Severe Obesity; Pregnancy; Sickle cell disease; smoking; diabetes; or other medical conditions as determined by a medical provider
- Long-term care facility residents and staff.
- Healthcare personnel and EMT/paramedics, paid or unpaid, in any setting where they may be exposed directly or indirectly to COVID-19 patients or COVID-19 infectious materials.
- Healthcare workers include nurses, physicians, emergency medical services, technicians, pharmacists, dietary and food staff, environmental services staff, and others.
- Healthcare settings include acute care facilities, long-term acute care facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home health care, mobile clinics, outpatient facilities such as physicians’ offices, and others.
- Drive-thru locations: https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,0,420,976.html#drive
- Make an appointment: https://covidvaccine.umc.edu/
- Mississippi COVID-19 Hotline for assistance: (877) 978-6453.
North Carolina
- Health Care Workers and Long Term Care Staff and Residents
- Older Adults
- Frontline Essential Workers
- https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/vaccines/find-your-spot-take-your-shot
- COVID-19 Vaccine Help Center 1-888-675-4567
Pennsylvania
- 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
- If you have questions about the vaccination process, call the Pennsylvania Department of Health hotline at 1-877-724-3258
South Carolina
- 70+-year-olds, regardless of health status or preexisting conditions
- 65+-year-olds, regardless of health status or preexisting conditions
- Anesthesiology assistants, registered cardiovascular invasive specialists, and operating room staff
- Athletic Trainers
- American Sign Language (ASL) and other interpreters in healthcare facilities
- Autopsy room staff, coroners, embalmers, and funeral home staff at risk of exposure to bodily fluids
- Chiropractors
- Dentists and dental hygienists, and technicians
- Dietary and food services staff in healthcare facilities
- Environmental services staff in healthcare facilities
- Harbor pilots
- Home caregivers for children who have a tracheostomy are ventilator-dependent or who have a Medically Complex Children’s Waiver. The Medically Complex Children’s Waiver (MCC) is a statewide program to serve children who meet either a Nursing Facility or Intermediate Care Facility-Intellectually Disabled level of care and medical criteria. Requires a medical provider’s signed attestation to confirm caregiver meets criteria.
- Home health and hospice workers
- Hospital transport personnel
- Hospital inpatients 65 and older
- Laboratory personnel and phlebotomists
- Licensed dietitians
- Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) residents and staff
- Medical assistants
- Medical first responders (paid and volunteer): EMS; fire department, and law enforcement personnel who provide emergency medical care
- Nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse’s aides/ assistants
- Opticians and optometrists and assistants/ technicians
- Persons providing medical care in correctional facilities and correctional officers
- Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
- Physical and occupational therapists and assistants
- Physicians, including medical house staff (i.e., interns, residents, fellows), and physician assistants
- Podiatrists
- Public health healthcare workers who are frequently interacting with persons with potential COVID-19 infection
- Radiology technicians
- Respiratory care practitioners, such as respiratory therapists
- Speech-language pathologists and assistants, and audiologists
- State/local government employees and their contractors who are mission-critical for maintaining operations of COVID-19 vaccinations and testing in S.C.
- Students and interns of the above categories
- Anyone aged 55 and up
- People with increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease
- People aged 16-54 with one or more of the following high-risk medical conditions: Cancer (current, not a history of cancer), chronic kidney disease (any stage), chronic lung disease, diabetes (Type 1 and Type 2), Down syndrome, heart disease (congestive heart disease, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension), HIV/AIDS, solid organ transplant, obesity (BMI >30), pregnancy, sickle cell disease.
- People who have a developmental or other severe high-risk disability that makes developing severe life-threatening illness or death from COVID-19 infection more likely
- Frontline workers with increased occupational risk
- Frontline workers with increased occupational risk are people who: Must be in-person at their place of work and Perform a job that puts them at increased risk of exposure due to their frequent, close (less than6 feet) and ongoing (more than 15 minutes) contact with others in the work environment
- A person’s eligibility for a COVID-19 vaccine isn’t based on a specific job or work sector. If a person decides that they meet job risk using the criteria above, they are eligible.
- Some examples of people who may be frontline workers based on risk may include school staff and daycare workers, criminal justice staff, government employees, manufacturing workers, grocery store workers, and law enforcement officers.
- Individuals at increased risk in settings where people are living and working in close contact
- Residents and workers in group home settings for the mentally or physically disabled or those with behavioral or substance abuse conditions
- Workers and residents in homeless shelters
- Workers and residents in community training homes
- State and local correctional facility staff with direct inmate contact
- Correctional and immigration detention facility inmates
- Migrant farmworkers living in shared housing or reliant on shared transportation
- All workers in healthcare and community health settings who have routine, direct patient contact and were not vaccinated in Phase 1a
- https://vaxlocator.dhec.sc.gov/COVIDproviderenrollment@dhec.sc.gov
- 1-866-365-8110
- For general questions about COVID-19, call the Care Line at 1-855-472-3432 from 7 am-7 pm daily. The Care Line can’t schedule an appointment for you.
Texas
- School and Child Care Personnel
- Those who work in pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools
- Head Start and Early Head Start programs (including teachers, staff, and bus drivers)
- Those who work as or for licensed child care providers, including center-based and family care providers
- Frontline healthcare workers and residents at long-term care facilities
- People 65+ or people 16+ with a health condition that increases the risk of severe COVID‑19 illness
- Do you know someone who is eligible for a vaccine but doesn’t have internet access? Please let them know they can call 2‑1‑1 for a referral to a local vaccine provider.
- Phone assistance for age 65 and older
Virginia
- Healthcare Personnel: Behavioral health providers, Community health workers, Dental assistants, hygienists, dentists, EMT/first responders serving as EMT extenders, Environmental services staff, Healthcare trainees, Home health workers, Human service providers, Infection control and quality assurance personnel, Laboratorians, Mortuary service providers (e.g., morticians/funeral home staff), Nurses, nursing assistants, Optometrists, Personal care aides, Pharmacists, pharmacy techs and staff, Public-facing public health workers, Radiological techs (and other diagnostic/therapeutic techs), Respiratory, physical, speech and occupational techs, Social workers, Primary caregivers for persons with severe chronic medical conditions or with intellectual or developmental disabilities requiring a high level of daily care
- Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities
- Frontline Essential Workers: Police, Fire, and Hazmat, Corrections and homeless shelter workers, Childcare/PreK-12 Teachers/Staff, Food and Agriculture (including veterinarians), Manufacturing, Grocery store workers, Public transit workers, Mail carriers (USPS and private), Officials needed to maintain continuity of government (including judges and public-facing judicial workers), Clergy/Faith Leaders, Janitorial/Cleaning staff
- People Age 65+
- People Age 16-64 with an underlying medical condition
- People living in correctional facilities, homeless shelters, and migrant labor camps
- https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/
- Vaccinate.Virginia.gov or call 1-877-VAX-IN V.A. 8 am – 8 pm. Language translation available
West Virginia
- Vaccinations are now available for all West Virginia residents age 50 and older, all West Virginia education workers from 40 to 50 years old, and all West Virginians age 16 and older with any of the following preexisting medical conditions: Down Syndrome, Intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caretakers, Caretakers of those with the congenital or acquired disease, Organ or bone marrow transplant, Obesity (BMI >35), Sickle cell anemia, Cystic fibrosis, Pregnancy
- 50 years of age and older population
- COVID-19 Vaccination Pre-Registration ALL West Virginians over the age of 16 are encouraged to pre-register through the West Virginia COVID-19 Vaccine Registration System.
- Pre-Register in 3 Simple Steps:
- STEP 1—Sign Up: Create Your Account (Provide information such as name, username, password, location, and communication contact (e.g., phone, text, email).
- STEP 2—Complete Your Profile Verify your information is correct and provide demographic information such as gender, race, and occupation.
- STEP 3—Review and Finish Select «Finish» and review for accuracy. You may edit any section now or later by clicking the «Edit» button(s).
- https://member.everbridge.net/747122446041089/login
- Vaccine Info Line for help at 1-833-734-0965. The info line is open Monday-Friday 8 am to 6 pm, and Saturday 9 am to 5 pm. This service is available for any West Virginian who does not have the ability to register online or anyone preferring to speak to a person to pre-register.


