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Advocacy groups are demanding the COVID-19 vaccine be given to Ohio s essential workers, including migrant laborers. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
OHIO Advocacy groups are petitioning for the COVID-19 vaccine to be given to Ohio s frontline laborers, including immigrants.
Essential Ohio, which campaigns for Ohio s frontline workers, sent a letter to Gov. Mike DeWine and Health Department Director Stephanie McCloud this week. The letter demands essential workers receive the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible. Many people are fortunate to be able to shelter themselves indoors for safety and isolation, but our essential workforce is not. Instead they have taken on new risks to themselves and their families that have made it possible for others to stay safe and Ohio s economy to restart, the letter said.