Who’s eligible for COVID-19 vaccine and what else to know about program expansion
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
Deborah Rutherford, a registered nurse with Michigan Medicine, presses a cotton ball on the arm of Taylor Moody after injecting her with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the Jack Roth Clubhouse at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News
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Hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine program starting Monday, Jan. 11, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Wednesday.
Three weeks after launching the vaccination program for those in group 1A frontline health-care workers and residents of skilled nursing facilities the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is now opening the program for those in group 1B as well as those age 65 to 74, Whitmer said.
Michigan is among worst states in the country for administering COVID-19 vaccinations, CDC data says
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
Kristy Smyth, a registered nurse with Michigan Medicine, injects Joseph Mazzola, an employee of C.S. Mott Children s Hospital, with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the Jack Roth Clubhouse at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020.
Michigan Medicine opened up the COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Big House on New Years Eve, Dec. 31, 2020 with a goal of distributing 2,000 vaccines to Phase 1A recipients - mostly those who work in medicine with close contact to infectious materials - in their first round.
(Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News)Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News
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Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
Leslie Rush, Department Manager on the 10-West floor at Sparrow Hospital, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Chad Larner, a respiratory therapist, at the hospital in Lansing, on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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Hospitals across the United States are launching coronavirus vaccination programs, and officials hope to have up to 20 million health-care workers and nursing-home residents immunized by the end of 2020.
It’s an effort being lauded as a major turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 300,000 Americans and more than 11,000 in Michigan.
Don’t visit your grandparents quite yet, even if they get the vaccine
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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Many people have gone months without seeing aging or other vulnerable parents, grandparents and close friends due to fears they will unintentionally pass along the deadly COVID-19 virus.
Arrival of vaccines prompts the question: Will it be safe to visit aging grandparents, parents or those with underlying health issues once they’ve been vaccinated for the coronavirus? The ambiguous answer from Michigan health officials, medical professionals and vaccine manufacturers is: no, not entirely.
“So that’s the million-dollar question right now,” said Dr. Darryl Elmouchi, president of Spectrum Health West Michigan, a division of Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids. “FDA and CDC are warning that people who are immunized might get a ‘subclinical infection,’ meaning that you might get COVID, but you just don’t have any symptoms. And you might be contagious during that p
COVID-19 numbers in Michigan and Ohio rose in lockstep this fall. Then the trendlines went in opposite directions.
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Seven-day-average of new coronavirus cases in Michigan from Oct. 15 through Dec. 14. Michigan implemented coronavirus-related restrictions on Nov. 18.
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As the Midwest experienced a fall surge of coronavirus, Ohio and Michigan had almost identical trendlines from mid-October through mid-November in their daily average of new COVID-19 cases.
Then third week of November, the trendlines began to diverge. Michigan’s numbers largely plateaued before trending down in December. Ohio’s caseload has continued to go up.
Ohio now ranks third in the country its seven-day average of new coronavirus cases per capita, according to a ranking by the Harvard Global Health Initiative. Michigan is 36th.