| 1A | Highest-risk health care workers and individuals: | » People who have direct contact with COVID-19 patients for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period.
| » Long-term care facility staff and residents. |
| 1B.1 | Coloradans age 70+, moderate risk health care workers, and first responders: | » Health care workers with less direct contact with COVID-19 patients (e.g. home health, hospice, pharmacy, dental, etc.) and EMS. | » Firefighters, police, COVID-19 response personnel, correctional workers, and funeral services.
» People age 70 and older. |
| 1B.2 | Coloradans ages 65-69, Pre-K-12th grade school staff and child care workers in licensed child care programs, and continuity of state government: | » Child care workers in licensed child care programs, teachers (full-time and substitutes), bus, food, counselors, administrative, safety and other support services offered inside the school. | » Select members of the Executive and Judicial branches of state government. *note: members of the legislative branch have
already received access to the vaccine
» People ages 65-69. |
| 1B.3 | People age 60 and older (Effective March 5, 2021) | Frontline essential workers in grocery and agriculture » The intent of this classification is to prioritize current workers who cannot maintain physical distance from others at their place of employment, who work in close contact with many people, especially indoors, and in places with poor ventilation including meatpacking workers; grocery store workers; and agricultural processing workers. | People 16-59 with 2 or more high risk conditions » The intent of this classification is to vaccinate Coloradans who have a high risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19. This includes Coloradans with two or more of the following: Cancer (defined as patients who are currently receiving treatment or have received treatment within the last month for cancer), chronic kidney disease, COPD, diabetes mellitus (types 1 and 2), Down syndrome, specific heart conditions (heart failure, cardiomyopathies or coronary heart disease, and severe valvular/congenital heart disease), obesity (BMI ≥ 30kg/m^2), pregnancy, sickle cell disease, solid organ transplant, individuals with disabilities who require direct care in their home, and people with disabilities that prevent them from wearing masks. |
| 1B.4 | People age 50 and older (Effective March 19, 2021) | Frontline workers in the following fields: » Higher education
» Food/restaurant services
» Manufacturing
» US postal service
» Public transit and specialized transportation
» Public health
» Human service workers
» Faith leaders
» Direct care providers for Coloradans experiencing homelessness
» Journalists | » Continuity of local government.
» Continuation of operations for state government.
» People age 16 to 49 with one of the following higher risk conditions.
» Adults who received a placebo during a COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial. |
| 2 | The general public age 18 and over (for the Moderna Vaccine). (Effective April 2, 2021) | The intent of this classification is to vaccinate any Coloradans who were not included in earlier phases because they have lower risk of exposure or are less likely to have severe outcomes from COVID-19. May be further segmented by age if needed. | |
