South Carolina to Move into Phase 1B of Vaccination Plan Starting Monday
Governor McMaster announced today that South Carolina will be moving into Phase 1B of our state’s vaccination plan. Starting on Monday, anyone age 55 and older will be eligible for the vaccine.
Those between ages 16 and 64 who are at increased severe risk for Covid-19 due to: cancer chronic kidney disease; diabetes; Down Syndrome; heart disease; HIV/AIDS; solid organ transplant; obesity; pregnancy; and sickle cell disease will also be able to book an appointment.
Further included are frontline workers with increased occupational risk such as:
- School staff and daycare workers
- Manufacturing workers
- Grocery store workers
- Law enforcement officers
- 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 those who work in healthcare in any capacity and were not vaccinated are able to do so.
