Vaccine Rollout Skips TSA Screeners, Air-Traffic Controllers
- Essential federal workers left to local governments for shot
- Acting head of homeland security names task force to remedy
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They’re essential workers performing critical safety work and have been assigned priority designation to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
Yet tens of thousands of airport security screeners, air-traffic controllers and federal accident investigators who must report to work in spite of the virus ravaging the U.S. haven’t gotten the shot and aren’t sure how and when they will.