Help advocate to get library workers added to the New York State definition of eligible education workers in the Phase 1b vaccination schedule: Reach out to your state legislators and to the NYS Department of Health (DOH) to express the need for DOH to expand their definition of “education workers” in Phase 1b of the vaccination schedule to include public library workers as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended. You may get the response: “…well, there’s not even enough vaccines to go around right now so what’s the rush…” however, that does not change the fact that library workers deserve to be on that list and were recognized by the CDC as “workers at greatest risk for exposure to infectious diseases.”
