Michigan to start vaccinating nursing home staff, residents next week; for many, it ‘can’t come soon enough’
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Pharmacist Vanessa Christianson prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming, Michigan on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Metro Health, an affiliate of University of Michigan Health based near Grand Rapids. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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Getting Ramona Chamberlin vaccinated against the coronavirus “can’t happen fast enough,” says her daughter, Kim McCool.
Chamberlin, who just turned 86, lives in Thornapple Manor, a long-term care facility in Hastings. While McCool praises the facility for its measures to protect residents from COVID-19, she also knows an asymptomatic employee or resident could unintentionally introduce it into the nursing-home and quickly start an outbreak.
By GINA KAUFMAN, ELISHA ANDERSON AND KRISTI TANNER | Detroit Free Press | Published: December 18, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. DETROIT (Tribune News Service) The sound of oxygen hissed as she stared into the camera on her phone and started recording. “I’m going to make this short and sweet,” Monique Baldridge announced from the hospital. As she had during her other Facebook Live dispatches using them to express her love and vowing never to give up Monique updated her condition, which was deteriorating. It was March 23, 2020, her sixth day in the hospital. Messages of prayers and well-wishes poured in. Monique said she was having difficulty talking.