More than 136K COVID-19 vaccine doses administered so far in Kent County
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 19, 2021
Vaccination area inside the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. The clinic, serving those who are eligible to receive the vaccine, opened as part of a partnership between the Kent County Health Department, Spectrum Health and Mercy Health Saint Mary s. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)Cory Morse | MLive.com
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI About 86,000 people have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Kent County, according to health officials.
Health data shows 50,261 have received two doses for full vaccination. Since last week, between Feb. 11 and Feb. 18, about 25,000 doses were administered across the county.
Despite jobs purge in Michigan, union membership grew in 2020
Contributors are growth of food retail sector, organizing of health care workers
Likely a one-time bump in continued fall of union labor
Kroger
Rising employment at unionized supermarket chains like Kroger and Meijer in the pandemic accounts for some of the growth in union membership in the past year.
Despite Michigan employers shedding roughly 487,000 jobs in 2020, union membership grew slightly across the state, according to data released this month by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Union membership in Michigan grew to an estimated 604,000 in December 2020, up 2.5 percent from 589,000 in December 2019, according to federal data.
Mercy Health welcomes first baby of 2021
By: FOX 17
and last updated 2021-01-01 15:06:58-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Mercy Health in Grand Rapids has delivered their first baby in 2021.
They tell us Henry Daniel Normandin was born at 12:32 a.m.
Mercy Health says Henry was born to Brooke and Thom Normandin, and that he weighs just under eight pounds and is 20.5 inches long.
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‘I shouldn’t be alive,’ says doctor who battled COVID-19 for three months
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
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The hospital visit amid the pandemic was only allowed because he might not live.
But on Wednesday, Dec. 23, just two days before Christmas, they got to see their dad again this time hugging him as he was discharged from hospital care following a perilous three-month battle with COVID-19.
“From a medical standpoint, talking to the ICU docs and reading the reports, I shouldn’t be alive,” Finkbeiner, a family doctor with Mercy Health, said.
“The idea that I’m going home before Christmas to be with my family, I couldn’t have asked for a better Christmas present.”