Vaccine rollout skips TSA screeners, air-traffic controllers Alan Levin, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail A TSA agent wearing a protective mask screens travelers at a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on June 13, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Patrick T. Fallon. They're essential workers performing critical safety work and have been assigned priority designation to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Yet tens of thousands of airport security screeners, air-traffic controllers and federal accident investigators who must report to work in spite of the virus ravaging the U.S. haven't gotten the shot and aren't sure how and when they will. "It's incredibly frustrating," said Jennifer Homendy, one of five members of the National Transportation Safety Board. "The vaccine rollout from my point of view has been mismanaged."