Wisconsin teachers, child care workers eligible for vaccine Monday
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Providence, R.I.[David Goldman/Associated Press]
The number of people eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in Wisconsin is about to grow.
Teachers and child care workers in Wisconsin will have priority for the coronavirus vaccine starting Monday.
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They are part of a group of 700,000 people who will be newly eligible, as about half of those over age 65 have been inoculated so far.
Others who become eligible Monday include people enrolled in Medicaid long-term care programs; grocery store workers; bus drivers; 911 dispatchers; mink farmers; prison inmates; non-essential health care workers; and staff in shared housing situations such as condominiums, student dorms and prisons.