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The Mining Journal newsroom has received more than a handful of calls recently from local residents wondering and worrying about the COVID-19 vaccine specifically, when the essential medicine will be available here and where.
Specific answers to those apparently simple questions have proven elusive to our professional news staff: We’re told there isn’t a whole lot of the vaccine around and local officials are giving out shots as quickly as they can.
If you’re in your late 60s and prone to pneumonia, those answers aren’t providing a great deal of confort.
On Friday, Mining Journal readers learned that Marquette County Health Department Health Officer Jerry Messana said that less than 5% of the department’s vaccine supply remains in the freezer. Through its vaccine clinics for ages 65 and older, the department has been averaging 600 vaccinations per day, the Journal story detailed.