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Some Tennessee Counties Opening Vaccinations To People 55+ and ‘Critical Infrastructure’ Workers

J. Intintoli
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MTSU

COVID-19 vaccinations are opening today to more Tennesseans, mostly in rural West Tennessee.

According to the Tennessee Department of Health’s website, 20 of the state’s 95 counties are expanding eligibility to people 55 and older (PDF list). And though they’re not listed on the state’s site,?Montgomeryand Hamilton Counties have announced they will do the same.

Also getting access are people in phases 2a and 2b, which includes “critical infrastructure workers.” That means public transportation workers, people in commercial agriculture or food production, and those who work in telecommunications or public infrastructure.

A fuller list of who qualifies in phase 2 is available at COVID19.tn.gov. Of note, the expanded eligibilities are not yet appearing on the state’s interactive map.

To begin the process of determining eligibility and finding an appointment, click here.

This is a developing story.

Alexis Marshall is WPLN News’s education reporter. She is a Middle Tennessee native and started listening to WPLN as a high schooler in Murfreesboro. She got her start in public radio freelance producing for NPR and reporting at WMOT, the on-campus station at MTSU. She was the reporting intern at WPLN News in the fall of 2018 and afterward an intern on NPR’s Education Desk. Alexis returned to WPLN in 2020 as a newscast producer and took over the education beat in 2022. Marshall contributes regularly to WPLN's partnership with Nashville Noticias, a Spanish language news program, and studies Arabic. When she's not reporting, you can find her cooking, crocheting or foraging for mushrooms.
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