Phase 1a1

Frontline Healthcare Workers, First Responders, LTCF and Dependent Disabled Adults 

  • Hospital/free-standing emergency department staff with direct patient exposure and/or exposure to potentially infectious materials
  • Home health care staff
  • COVID-19 mass testing site staff
  • Student health providers
  • Staff and Residents of LTCF
    • Skilled Nursing Facilities
    • Assisted Living Centers
    • Homes for the Aged
    • DIDD Residential Centers
    • Group Homes
  • First responders with direct public exposure
    • Police
    • Fire
    • EMS
    • rescue squads
    • correction officers and jailers
  • Individuals 18 years or older who cannot live independently due to a serious chronic medical condition or intellectual or developmental disability

First priority when supply is limited

Age 65 or older
Cancer
Chronic Kidney Disease
COPD
Solid Organ Transplant
Obesity (BMI >= 30)
Serious Cardiac Disease
Sickle Cell Disease
Diabetes

Phase 1a2

Outpatient Healthcare Workers with Direct Patient Exposure

  • Primary care providers and staff
  • Outpatient specialty providers and staff working with acute patients
  • Pharmacists and staff
  • Patient transport
  • Outpatient therapists
  • Urgent visit center providers and staff
  • Environmental services
  • Oral health providers
  • Behavioral health providers
  • Outpatient laboratory staff working with COVID-19 specimens
  • Funeral/mortuary workers with direct decedent contact

First priority when supply is limited

Age 65 or older
Cancer
Chronic Kidney Disease
COPD
Solid Organ Transplant
Obesity (BMI >= 30)
Serious Cardiac Disease
Sickle Cell Disease
Diabetes

Phase 1b

K-12, Child Care teachers and staff and Other First Responders

  • Administrative staff, dispatchers, communications staff, other first responders without significant direct public contact

First priority when supply is limited

Age 65 or older

Phase 1c

Tennesseans 16 Years Old or Older with the following diagnosed health conditions. 

  • Chronic renal disease
  • COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis, moderate-severe asthma
  • Obesity (BMI >30)
  • Heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathies, hypertension
  • Sickle cell, thalassemia
  • Cerebrovascular disease, stroke
  • Dementia
  • Liver disease

Technologically-dependent individuals ages >=16 years and the household residents and caregivers of children <16 years old who are technologically dependent

  • such as individuals who are ventilator dependent, oxygen-dependent, with tracheostomy, wheelchair bound due to high risk medical condition, or require tube feedings, parenteral nutrition or dialysis

Individuals ages >=16 with immunocompromising conditions and the household residents and caregivers of children <16 years old who have immunocompromising conditions.

  • such as individuals receiving chemotherapy, requiring daily oral steroids or other immunosuppressants, requiring medication to control diabetes, those with HIV/AIDS or other diagnosed high-risk immunodeficiency

Household residents and caregivers of children <16 years old who

  • have complex congenital heart disease requiring ongoing medical management, such as Tetralogy, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and double outlet right ventricle
  • qualify for the Katie Beckett waiver

First priority when supply is limited

Age 65 or older

Phase 2a

Critical Infrastructure

  • Social Services
    • Includes child welfare agency personnel with direct public exposure
  • Commercial agriculture
  • Commercial food production
  • Corrections staff no included in 1a1
    • Administrative staff, those without regular public/inmate contact
  • Public transit
    • Includes drivers and maintenance personnel

Phase 2b

Critical Infrastructure

  • Transportation
    • Postal and package delivery
    • freight railroad
    • maritime cargo
    • commercial or cargo service airports
  • Public infrastructure
    • Includes dams, roads, locks and bridge maintenance and engineering
    • solid waste collection and processing
  • Telecommunications
    • Includes those providing direct services
  • Utilities/Energy
    • Includes line workers and other maintenance and engineering personnel involved in direct provision of services

Phase 3

Other in High-Risk Settings

  • Individuals in congregate living facilities
    • Includes those living and working in shelters, college dormitories and other settings where individuals are capable of independent living
  • Grocery workers
  • Corrections inmates
    • Includes those housed in detention centers, prisons and jails

 

 

 

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