Macomb County opens Sterling Heights COVID vaccination site for seniors
Sterling Heights Senior Center to host vaccination site for seniors 60 and older
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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. – From Detroit to Macomb County, there are new initiatives being rolled out to help ensure seniors receive their COVID-19 vaccinations.
Macomb County resident Tom Wysocki, 60, knows all about the vaccine process and the importance of getting one since his wife works in the medical field.
“Logistically, it’s a huge task, so I think everybody is full court press,” Wysocki said.
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Wysocki says that, for months, he’s been waiting for his turn to get vaccinated because he was under the age requirement, which was 65 years old. But now Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel says the county is expanding vaccine eligibility criteria and is lowering that requirement.
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The City of Detroit, as well as the Wayne and Macomb county health departments, are working to vaccinate more of their senior citizens, who are some of the most vulnerable to the coronavirus, by opening more clinics for them starting this week.
Detroit officials announced Tuesday that two new appointment-only Senior Saturday locations for Detroiters at Grace Community Church on the east side and the Kemeny Recreation Center on the west side will open starting this weekend.
The city also is planning to work with community partners to bring mobile vaccination clinics to pop-up sites, giving shots to up to 200 eligible Detroiters across the city on an ad-hoc basis, targeting ZIP codes with high positivity test rates for the virus and a high population of seniors age 65 and older, officials said in a news release.