New York state began receiving its first deliveries of COVID-19 doses last week and the first New Yorkers have already begun to be vaccinated.

For more information about the vaccines and their distribution in New York, visit: www.ny.gov/vaccine.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has laid out the following guidelines for the distribution of the vaccines in New York

Phase One Vaccine Recipients
• High-risk health care workers (i.e. hospital and emergency room workers, ICU staff and pulmonary department staff)
• Long-term care facility staff who interact with patients and the most at-risk long-term care facility patients

Phase Two Vaccine Recipients
• First responders
• Teachers and school staff
• Public health workers
• Essential frontline workers that regularly interact with the public
• Individuals in the general population deemed particularly high risk due to comorbidities and health conditions
• Other long-term care facility patients and those living in congregate settings

Phase Three Vaccine Recipients
• Individuals over 65 years of age
• Individuals under 65 years of age with high-risk comorbidities and health conditions

Phase Four Vaccine Recipients
• All other essential workers

Phase Five Vaccine Recipients
• Healthy adults and children

(Submitted)