Letter: Sumter's seniors want more info on COVID-19 vaccine distribution

According to South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, we are in Phase 1A currently. Phase 1b will  be the next phase and is expected to begin in late winter. Phase 1B  includes all people aged 75 years and older and frontline essential workers (Sectors included by ACIP: firefighters, law enforcement officers, corrections officers, food and agricultural workers, USPS workers, manufacturing workers, grocery store workers, public transit workers, and those who work in the educational sector—teachers, support staff, and daycare workers) For additional information, visit https://scdhec.gov/covid19/covid-19-vaccine.

Additionally, The Sumter Item will provide online and in print information as it is supplied to us on the availability of local vaccinations.