Nearly 80,000 food processing and agricultural workers in Michigan are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, weeks earlier than originally planned. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services moved last month to prioritize those workers to "help ensure the health and safety of Michigan’s essential food and agriculture workers and keep the state’s food supply chain moving," the department said in the announcement. Mortuary workers also were moved up in priority. The move doesn't just allow workers in high-risk industries such as meatpacking and farm work to become vaccinated. It paves the way for some of Michigan's most vulnerable residents who work in those industries – refugees and undocumented migrant workers – to receive shots.