Photo by Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images The news comes weeks after the Baker administration lifted all percentage-based capacity caps on the state’s restaurants — an acceleration of its hasty and, in the opinion of the nation’s top infectious disease experts, ill-advised reopening plan — despite the fact that restaurant workers had not yet been prioritized for the vaccine. (Note: there are still risks associated with indoor dining, and restaurant workers — especially unvaccinated restaurant workers — shoulder most of the burden.) In addition to restaurant workers, grocery store workers, agricultural workers, meatpackers, and other foodservice workers will also be eligible for the vaccine on March 22.