Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility Timeline by State
Massachusetts
If you are a grocery store worker, bus driver, or a cafeteria worker in Massachusetts, you will be eligible to sign up for a vaccine beginning next week.
Other eligible groups include:
- Restaurant or cafe workers
- Food meatpacking, beverage, agriculture, consumer goods, retail, or food service workers
- Grocery and convenience store workers
- Food pantry workers or volunteers
- Medical supply chain workers
- Vaccine development workers
- Transit/transportation workers
For more information and to find a vaccine provider near you, visit: https://www.mass.gov/…/covid-19-vaccinations-for…
Rhode Island
People are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination in Rhode Island based on Rhode Island’s vaccination timeline and if they live, work, or go to school in Rhode Island. To get vaccinated, you must confirm you are part of an eligible group, either online or over the phone when booking.
Current eligible groups include:
| Hospital employees |
| Mass vaccination volunteers and staff |
| Medical staff, high-risk correctional officers, high-risk incarcerated persons |
| Residents of Central Falls (pilot for hard-hit communities) |
| Nursing home staff and residents |
| Community health center staff |
| Respiratory care and urgent care clinic staff |
| Other frontline workers (State Lab, OSME, nursing home surveyors) |
| Laboratories doing COVID-19 testing |
| College health services (COVID-19 specimen collectors) |
| Pharmacists |
| Harm reduction staff |
| Patient-facing clinical students |
| Alternate hospital location frontline staff |
| Group homes for individuals primarily 65 and older, assisted living, elderly housing with residential services |
| DCYF High-Risk Congregate Setting Staff |
| Targeted Group Home Staff and Residents |
| Rhode Island Blood Center |
| Outpatient providers |
| Blood, organ, and tissue donation providers |
| Community and Family Caregivers |
| Other congregate living staff |
| Providers of direct home services for health, safety, and developmental needs |
| Morticians, funeral home staff, and other death care professionals |
| Adults age 75 or older |
| People experiencing homelessness |
| Adults age 65 or older |
| Teachers, school staff, and child care workers |
| Adults age 60-64 |
| Adults age 16-64 with underlying medical conditions |
For more information and to find a vaccine provider near you, visit: https://covid.ri.gov/vaccination
For a continued updated list of groups eligible for the vaccine, visit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rcqXfFqnv1o6AFZe1zczfkRvI6cL3-6uNrgP91da3gA/edit#gid=0
Connecticut
For more information on the eligibility phases in Connecticut and to find a vaccine provider near you, visit: https://portal.ct.gov/Vaccine-Portal
