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Local Health Departments Respond to State Expanding COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility to Ages 16 and Up Starting April 5th
March 12, 2021
Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced Friday that the state is expanding vaccination eligibility for Michiganders 16 and over starting April 5th. However, local health departments are hoping there will be an increase in supply of the vaccine to go along with the increase in eligibility.
“It would get to the point where we would find out on Friday what we were getting on Monday and it changed quite often early on,” says Steve Hall, health officer for the Central Michigan District Health Department.
“I think as more options come and as the vaccine supply (increases), it s important that we are allocating vaccines as fast as we can in that process,” said Andrew Cox, the recently named director of the Macomb County Health Department. “I think it does make sense.”
David Jahn, CEO of Sault Ste. Marie’s War Memorial Hospital, said the plan gives the hospital more flexibility in moving people through the lines.
“It would help us because we can’t find enough people in the current age categories who still need vaccinations,” he told Bridge Michigan in an email. “So from our perspective anyone in the current priority categories has had numerous opportunities to receive the vaccine.”
As a state, we recently reached and passed the first anniversary of when the first cases of COVID-19 were detected.
A year later, fear has started to change to hope. Three viable vaccines are injected into the arms of Michiganders and every day, more people are becoming vaccinated. It is with cautious optimism many are starting to think things will become normal â whatever that means, â sooner rather than later.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first set of public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people. This guidance will be updated and expanded based on the level of community spread of COVID-19, the percentage of the total population fully vaccinated and the evolving science related to the three vaccines.
CADILLAC — When the polio vaccine was introduced in the 1950s, children were the first group in society to be immunized, since they were most at risk if they developed