In Mobile County, religious leaders included in frontline vaccinations Updated Jan 13, 2021; Posted Jan 12, 2021 The Rev. David Frazier receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot from a Mobile County Health Department staff member on Jan. 12, 2021.Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com Facebook Share Tuesday afternoon the Mobile County Health Department opened a fast lane for vaccinations for clergy, partly under the view that in some cases they face a level of exposure similar to health-care workers and first responders. As MCHD livestreamed the process, The Rev. David Frazier of Revelation Baptist Church and moderator of the Mobile Baptist Sunlight District Association, was the first to take a seat for his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Mobile County Health Officer Dr. Bert Eichold II, narrating the event, said that pastoral leaders “were individuals who were actually going into the hospital to provide spiritual support and care for their parishioners and sometimes for strangers. And like healthcare workers, frontline workers, they need to be protected from COVID-19.”