Immediate Vaccination Opportunity for Agricultural Workers

 By Daniel Weber

The Keystone Health Agricultural Worker Program has 700 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine available for immediate use, freely available to agricultural workers in the south-central region of Pennsylvania.

These vaccines will expire on June 23rd, 2021, so the Keystone Health Agricultural Worker Program is making a push to get them distributed to those in need as quickly as possible.

If there are more than twenty workers at a location, a Keystone Health worker will coordinate a time to provide vaccinations on-site, says Sharon Kaya, Keystone Health’s Southcentral Regional Outreach Coordinator. On-site service is limited to a 50-mile radius from the clinic’s Gardners, PA, location, listed below.

Otherwise, Keystone requests that smaller groups of workers be transported directly to the clinic. Neighbors may coordinate with one another and Keystone to arrange a common, central location to reduce travel times in order to meet the twenty-person minimum on-site requirement.

Because this program is grant-funded, some information is needed about each worker prior to scheduling an on-site visit or clinic appointment. Employers are asked to download a copy of the registration workbook (the spreadsheet file in the folder linked here), fill out the information for each worker to be vaccinated, and return it directly to Keystone (not to your local Penn State Extension educator). The spreadsheet is compatible with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and most other third-party spreadsheet programs.