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Michigan essential workers now among those competing for a short supply of COVID-19 vaccines Updated Jan 22, 2021; Facebook Share Those essential workers are finding themselves now competing for the state’s limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines. Not including vaccine allocations for long-term care facility staff and residents, Michigan has been getting about 60,000 first doses a week for residents age 65 and older as well as a select list of essential workers, including teachers below the coll...

For Michiganders anxious to be vaccinated against COVID-19, demand far outstrips supply Updated Jan 21, 2021; Posted Jan 21, 2021 Bundles of syringes are prepared - one for each of six doses in a vaccine vial - as Michigan Medicine healthcare workers administer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the Jack Roth Clubhouse at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News Facebook Share On Monday, the Sparrow Health System web...

Who’s eligible for COVID-19 vaccine and what else to know about program expansion Updated Jan 07, 2021; Posted Jan 07, 2021 Deborah Rutherford, a registered nurse with Michigan Medicine, presses a cotton ball on the arm of Taylor Moody after injecting her with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the Jack Roth Clubhouse at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News Facebook Share Hundreds of thousands of Michigan resid...

Michigan is among worst states in the country for administering COVID-19 vaccinations, CDC data says Updated Jan 06, 2021; Posted Jan 06, 2021 Kristy Smyth, a registered nurse with Michigan Medicine, injects Joseph Mazzola, an employee of C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital, with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the Jack Roth Clubhouse at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. Michigan Medicine opened up the COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Big House on Ne...

U.S. Vaccinations at 200,000 a Day Run Far Short of ‘Warp Speed’ Bloomberg 12/30/2020 Drew Armstrong, Gabrielle Coppola and John Tozzi (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is vaccinating an average of only 200,000 people a day against Covid-19, and many states have used just a small percentage of the shipments sent to them this month. Data gathered from states and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show that while Operation Warp Speed has distributed millions of doses, s...

How does the coronavirus vaccine work? Nine things you need to know Updated Dec 20, 2020; Posted Dec 20, 2020 Leslie Rush, Department Manager on the 10-West floor at Sparrow Hospital, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Chad Larner, a respiratory therapist, at the hospital in Lansing, on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com Facebook Share Hospitals across the United States are launching coronavirus vaccination programs, and officials hope to ha...

Amid cheers and applause, Sparrow Hospital administers first coronavirus vaccines in Lansing Updated Dec 18, 2020; Facebook Share LANSING -- Abigail Wheeler has gotten plenty of vaccines over her lifetime, but none garnered as much attention as the shot she received Thursday, Nov. 17. In front of television cameras and newspaper photographers, the Sparrow Hospital nurse held up her arm to a co-worker who injected a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine -- making Wheeler the first person at Sp...

WKARs Scott Pohl reports on Lansings first hospital worker COVID-19 vaccinations Sparrow Hospital system director of pharmacy Todd Beldin gets help unpacking the hospitals first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine. Credit Scott Pohl / WKAR/MSU At McLaren Greater Lansing’s main campus on Thursday, Dawn Chapel, an intensive care unit registered nurse with over 30 years of experience, was the first to be vaccinated. Dr. Linda Peterson is McLaren Greater Lansing’s chief medical officer. For her, “i...