Vaccinating Michigan’s long-term residents is high priority, but off to slow start
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
A staff member at the SKLD nursing facility in Grand Rapids receives a COVID-19 vaccine from Tonino Michienzi of Walgreens. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services)
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Colleen Peters, a resident of StoryPoint Senior Living in Portage, thought she would get her COVID-19 vaccination last week, only to see the vaccination clinic at the complex canceled.
“We were told they didn’t have enough vaccine,” Peters said. “I told my son, we live six blocks from the place where they make it and we still can’t get it.”
COVID Vaccinations of Michigan Residents Off to Slow Start
Michigan’s program to vaccinate about 300,000 residents and staff at long-term care facilities launched on Dec. 28, but it’s been very slow going so far: As of Sunday, Jan. 10, only 28,775 have gotten their first shot. by Julie Mack, mlive.com / January 12, 2021 TNS
(TNS) - Colleen Peters, a resident of StoryPoint Senior Living in Portage, thought she would get her COVID-19 vaccination last week, only to see the vaccination clinic at the complex canceled.
“We were told they didn’t have enough vaccine,” Peters said. “I told my son, we live six blocks from the place where they make it and we still can’t get it.”
COVID-19 vaccinations begin in Michigan’s long-term care facilities; first round targets 91,000
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
A staff member at the SKLD nursing facility in Grand Rapids receives a COVID-19 vaccine from Tonino Michienzi of Walgreens. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services)
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Vaccinating skilled nursing home residents and staff across Michigan began Monday, Dec. 28, and state officials say it should take about three weeks to administer the first round of vaccine doses.
About 91,000 staff and residents are eligible for this round of the program, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Resources.