Getting appointments for 16- and 17- year-olds
When 16- and 17-year-olds are registered for a vaccine, a provider will let them schedule if the Pfizer vaccine is available there. Providers will see the age on the registration and know if they can be scheduled.
Health departments are working with providers to store and distribute the Pfizer vaccine to locations that might not have that brand.
The Barry-Eaton District Health Department is holding a Pfizer clinic on Monday, April 19 at the Lansing Mall. People can schedule an appointment online or call 517-541-2605 if they need special assistance or do not have internet access.
LANSING – COVID-19 vaccine providers are shifting Pfizer and Moderna doses to prevent canceling appointments caused by a pause on using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Greater Lansing COVID-19 vaccine providers will follow federal and state recommendations to pause the use of the J&J vaccine after concerns about adverse reactions to the shot. Health departments and Sparrow Health System will store any J&J vaccine until the pause is lifted.
“Safety is our highest priority. It is important that the CDC and the FDA take time to investigate these rare but serious adverse events,” Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail said in a statement. “The pause is a sign that our vaccine reporting and investigation systems are working to ensure safety.
LANSING Health officials are blaming social gatherings over last week s spring break for a spike in COVID-19 cases at Charlotte Public Schools.
Classes, including some in-person learning, resumed at Charlotte schools on Monday as students returned from spring break the week before. Since then, Barry-Eaton District Health Department has confirmed 14 new COVID-19 cases and 222 students in quarantine, according to Anne Barna, spokesperson for the health department.
Barna stopped short of calling the 14 cases an outbreak, as outbreaks involve two or more related cases.
None of the 14 cases are connected, she said, but added that the uptick could become an outbreak if case numbers continue to climb in Eaton County.
Barry-Eaton District Health Department ties COVID-19 cases to gatherings outside classrooms
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BARRY COUNTY, Mich. â Barry-Eaton District Health Department issued a statement Friday agreeing that âsignificant personal and community actions are needed to reduce the current COVID-19 surge.â
Health officials say that while a lot of attention has been placed on in-school transmission of the virus, the âmajorityâ of transmission has been happening outside of classrooms.
Moving schools to virtual instruction for the next two weeks and pausing youth sports activities for the same amount of time will help reduce spread in Barry and Eaton counties if both are done, the statement said.
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