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Proximity gets priority in food and ag

The director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture is encouraging essential food and ag workers to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines.

Gary McDowell tells Brownfield the state on March 1st will add farmers, farm workers and those in food processing who work in close proximity with others to the vaccine priority list.

“We don’t have a real definitive list of our food processors and who that would be so I encourage everybody to make sure you contact your health department,” he says.

H-2A, migrant, seasonal, food processing and greenhouse workers last year were required to be tested for COVID-19 and McDowell says while those rules are still in place, they will be adapted soon.

“As more people are vaccinated and as we move beyond this disease, we’ll be changing our requirements,” he says.

Michigan joins California as the only state to have declared food and ag essential workers eligible for COVID vaccines to date.

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