NorthJersey.com People with disabilities needed to be at the top of the list as CVS began to vaccinate state residents against COVID-19 this week. They were not, and once again they were forgotten, advocates said. “Historically people with disabilities are always left out of emergency planning. We have been saying this for years. We have been fighting for the past how many months, step by step of the way, to get ourselves included,” said Carole Tonks, with the Alliance Center for Independence, which promotes independent living for people with disabilities in Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties. As the state opens vaccination centers to an estimated 3 million to 3.5 million residents in high-risk categories, its disabled residents are vying to be heard, saying the conditions that put them at high risk are being ignored.