By: Jordan Dafnis
Oklahoma City -
Monday is another milestone for COVID-19 vaccination plans as a new group of Oklahomans are now eligible to get the vaccine.
Kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers and Oklahomans of any age with serious health conditions are eligible to get their shots. This will impact hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans.
Those now eligible due to comorbidities includes anyone with hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung, liver, or renal disease, and cancers.
Oklahoma Deputy Health Commissioner, Keith Reed says the state is also going to be careful to keep open appointments for earlier groups such as people age 65 and older.