Patient facing direct health care workers include any paid or unpaid health care workers with direct patient contact.

The CDC defines frontline essential workers as first responders (e.g., firefighters and police officers), corrections officers, food and agricultural workers, U.S. Postal Service workers, manufacturing workers, grocery store workers, public transit workers, and those who work in the educational sector (teachers and support staff members) as well as child care workers.

• Asthma
• Cancer
• Cerebrovascular Disease
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Hypertension or High Blood Pressure
• Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Immunocompromised from solid organ transplant
• Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system)
• Liver Disease
• Neurologic conditions, such as Dementia
• Obesity
• Overweight (BMI > 25 kg/m2, but < 30 kg/m2)
• Pregnancy
• Pulmonary Fibrosis (having damaged or scarred lung tissues)
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Smoker
• Thalassemia (a type of blood disorder)