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In Northern Michigan, hospitals and health departments urged residents to continue following public health guidelines, noting that vaccine distribution will take some time.
Nick Torney is a Munson Healthcare Infectious Disease Pharmacist. He says for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine, people will have to receive two separate doses.
“The FDA really does have a rigorous process for improving vaccines for safety. None of those processes were limited in the process of identifying a safe vaccine for COVID-19,” he says.
Munson Healthcare is expected to receive its first dose of the vaccine this week and will administer it to frontline health care workers starting on Friday.
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“[These are] some of the highest numbers we’ve seen since the pandemic started … so we are very grateful that we have a vaccine in sight,” said Munson Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Christine Nefcy.
Munson Healthcare will get 2,925 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which will go to staff across their hospitals in northern Michigan.
Some healthcare workers could get vaccinated as soon as Friday.
But doses are also going all over the region to small health clinics and county health departments.
Wendy Hirschenberger with the Grand Traverse County Health Department, says they’re slated to get 975 doses this week, which will go to first responders.
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TRAVERSE CITY â Grand Traverse County is looking to fill a new marketing and communications specialist position.
The county needs a person who is dedicated to the role, especially as the COVID-19 vaccination comes out and the public will be looking for information, said county Administrator Nate Alger. He has also been watching various departments scramble to meet deadlines.
âWe just need to have somebody who is the centerpiece and who is responsible for updating information or distributing information,â Alger said.
There is no one currently at the county who has both the ability and the time to manage and disseminate information and keep the website current, he said.