While the federal Centers For Disease Control considers all construction workers to be essential—one of the first tiers of workers who will get the vaccine—they will have to wait in line like everyone else as a rollout of vaccinations on worksites or other worker locations is not under consideration.

During a Jan. 11 CDC briefing, “COVID-19 Vaccine and the Role of the Private Sector,” sponsored by New York University's International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (INTERCEP), Dr. David Fitter, co-lead for the agency's COVID-19 Response Vaccine Task Force, said the potential may exist for corporations to assist in distributing the vaccine at their facilities or jobsites, but he said the idea is not being considered at this point by public health authorities, who are focusing primarily on health care institutions and pharmacies.