WCMU Michigan News Group
A Northern Michigan health care provider has started receiving COVID-19 vaccines directly from the federal government.
Most vaccine doses in Michigan are distributed from the federal government to the state Department of Health and Human Services, then to hospitals and local health districts, and then, maybe, to community health centers.
But Alcona Health Center has received about 1,600 vaccine doses directly from the federal Centers for Disease Control. The CDC chose the health center as part of a pilot program aimed at getting vaccine doses to people who might otherwise be left behind by the immunization campaign.