Beauty Pros Are Petitioning For COVID Vaccine Eligibility 

Hairdressers are pushing for vaccine priority as states begin to announce and expand eligibility requirements. Beauty pros are starting petitions asking state officials to include hairstylists and other cosmetology professions as “essential workers,” allowing them to be vaccinated alongside grocery store and public transit workers.

Stylists “have been working in close contact with the public since June 3, 2020 and are unable to socially distance,” one petition says. The petition, started by Hair Dressers Unite, compels Illinois Gov. J.B. Priztker to include cosmetologists in the state’s Phase…