Why Michigan’s senior residents are struggling to schedule COVID-19 vaccines
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
Posted Jan 13, 2021
A vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 sits on a table waiting to be administered to healthcare workers at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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Michigan’s older residents are among the newly eligible groups for COVID-19 vaccination, though limited vaccine supplies and varying capabilities across the state’s 45 local health departments have made scheduling appointments difficult.
Some health departments have begun scheduling appointments and hosting clinics for residents 65 years and older, while others have announced they don’t have the supplies or capacity to begin moving onto the next priority groups, as of Tuesday, Jan. 12.
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Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
A staff member at the SKLD nursing facility in Grand Rapids receives a COVID-19 vaccine from Tonino Michienzi of Walgreens. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services)
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Colleen Peters, a resident of StoryPoint Senior Living in Portage, thought she would get her COVID-19 vaccination last week, only to see the vaccination clinic at the complex canceled.
“We were told they didn’t have enough vaccine,” Peters said. “I told my son, we live six blocks from the place where they make it and we still can’t get it.”
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(TNS) - Colleen Peters, a resident of StoryPoint Senior Living in Portage, thought she would get her COVID-19 vaccination last week, only to see the vaccination clinic at the complex canceled.
“We were told they didn’t have enough vaccine,” Peters said. “I told my son, we live six blocks from the place where they make it and we still can’t get it.”
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Hospitalizations from COVID-19 have increased by 54 percent in Isabella County since the start of December, health department records show. In Clare County, they have increased by 48 percent.
On Dec. 2, Central Michigan District Health Department s weekly data sheet reported a total of 54 COVID-related hospitalizations in Isabella County. In the most recent data available, from Wednesday, that number had increased to 86.
That includes everyone who has spent time in the hospital for COVID-19, from overnight to extended stays. In Isabella County, COVID-related hospitalizations have run on average slightly longer than hospitalizations for other reasons.
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With 2,955 cases reported on the same data sheet, Isabella County s hospitalization rate is 2.8 percent. As of Wednesday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, reported 2,950 cases in Isabella County. Because cases trickle in from multiple sources throughout the day, it is common for the two to r