Oakland County expands vaccine strategy to include community and school based clinics
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DETROIT – Oakland County is expanding its reach to host community and school based COVID-19 vaccine clinics.
Beginning the week of May 24 the Oakland County Health Division will collaborate with other providers, municipalities, and school districts to ensure all residents have access to the vaccine at familiar locations near their homes.
“By holding pop-up clinics within minutes of your home and among your neighbors, we’re hoping to attract residents who may not have felt comfortable driving a long way to larger clinics,” said County Executive Dave Coulter.
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Birmingham Schools announced Friday two vaccination clinics for students at each of their high schools.
Huron Valley will also host a drive-thru vaccination clinic from 3-7 p.m. May 26 at Oak Valley Middle School, said Calandra Green, Oakland County Health Division nurse and administrator.
Other Oakland County districts, including South Lyon, are coordinating vaccine efforts with county health department partners for shots. With the new guidelines making the vaccine eligible for anyone 12 and up, we ve had a lot of requests to support the schools, Green said. Our efforts have been to push the vaccine to all community partners, so pediatric offices and local pharmacies can provide in partnership with Oakland County.
This will mean less missed school because of quarantine, she said, fewer missed sports practices and games, a return to birthday parties, sleepovers and, most importantly, our kids will have a much lower risk of getting ill from this terrible virus.
Children, Khaldun said, aren t immune to COVID-19. We have seen many outbreaks among schools and school sports, and over 150 children in Michigan have gotten a very serious inflammatory syndrome from COVID-19 called MIS-C (multisystem inflammatory syndrome children). And unfortunately, many of these children have ended up in the intensive care unit, and some have even lost their lives.
“So I m asking all parents today to take this virus seriously and take your child to get vaccinated. Think about it: not having to wear a mask, not needing to quarantine if exposed to the virus. This is really a big deal.
By CHRISTINA HALL | Detroit Free Press | Published: May 7, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. DETROIT (Tribune News Service) Mitch Allen wants to go to a restaurant. And go to a place with music. And to get together with his family again for the holidays. One of his two housemates wants to get back to bowling. Maybe we can be safe and move on, be back to normal, Allen, 50, said after receiving the second dose of his COVID-19 vaccine during a clinic Wednesday for four Oakland County group homes for residents with developmental disabilities.