Share April 15, 2021, 6:39 AM Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan took a distressed tone at his Wednesday Covid-19 briefing, pleading with unvaccinated residents to get the free shot as soon as possible.
Drive-through service for a lifesaving shot. (Photo: Nancy Derringer) Sky-high rates of cases in Michigan s Thumb region are spreading toward us and leaving our neighbors vulnerable in a terrible way because the city s vaccination rate remains low. (It s at 24.7% of residents 16 and older.) In fact, Duggan said, the city is discussing possibly offering incentives to get reluctant Detroiters to vaccination sites. Duggan on Wednesday laid out the city s plan to ramp up vaccination awareness in Detroit with community forums, a door-knocking campaign and virtual tools to locate the closest of 24 citywide vaccine sites as vaccinations lag surrounding counties and the positivity rate has soared to nearly 21% from just 3.5% in late March.
Kresge Foundation commits $2M to Detroit s COVID-19 vaccination effort
Detroit The Kresge Foundation is committing $2 million to bolster access to COVID-19 vaccines and support services in Detroit.
The foundation said Thursday it will direct half of the funding toward health equity efforts in Detroit through community health centers, neighborhood development groups and human service agencies. Kresge has committed the other $1 million to grants to support various organizations with vaccination efforts. Those will be awarded in the coming weeks.
“COVID-19 is not over, especially in Black and Brown communities, Wendy Lewis Jackson, managing director of the Kresge Foundation’s Detroit Program, said in a news release. Community organizations are telling us that there’s more to be done to get out the word in neighborhoods that vaccines are readily available, safe and save lives, and to help connect residents to them.
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Detroit Health Department suspends use of J&J COVID-19 vaccine
DETROIT The city of Detroit has suspended the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine by the city’s health department until further notice.
Detroit Chief Public Health Officer Denise Fair said Tuesday that the decision is based on recommendations from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Detroit “has a sufficient supply of Moderna and Pfizer (vaccines) to vaccinate everyone who had an appointment scheduled this week at the Northwest Activity Center or the neighborhood clinics for a J&J shot,” the health department said in a release.
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