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The first of what could be over 40-thousand seniors in Kalamazoo County will get their first COVID-19 shots this week. The county s health department is holding clinics Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment only. County Health Officer Jim Rutherford says vaccinations of front-line healthcare workers are complete. Now it s moving on to Group One-B. It includes people 65 and older, who are at higher risk of dying from the disease. Rutherford says demand for the shots is high. All of the essential employees, coupled with staff within our school system, coupled with some of those populations, we re well into 60- to 70,000 residents.
Vaccination clinic for police, frontline workers brings ‘joy and hope’ to Kalamazoo
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Kalamazoo CountyÕs medical director Dr. William Nettleton talks with the media as they prepare to open a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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KALAMAZOO, MI After months of fighting the coronavirus pandemic and watching cases and deaths increase, Kalamazoo County public health officials this week began seeing a new metric ticking up: the increasing number of people vaccinated against the virus.
Kalamazoo County Medical Director William Nettleton is among those who have already been vaccinated. Nettleton received his first dose of the vaccine on Friday, Dec. 18. The health department is continuing to administer vaccines this week to those in the first priority phase of vaccination.