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MARQUETTE The COVID-19 vaccination process throughout the Upper Peninsula is anticipated to begin next week, the Marquette County Health Department reported.
MCHD officials acknowledged it will be a large undertaking with multiple partners.
The initial allotment will be the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, to be followed by the Moderna vaccine, which the AP reported that a panel of outside experts is expected to recommend on Thursday, with the FDA’s green light coming soon thereafter.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is approved for individuals age 16 and over, and initial allotments will be designated for those in the highest priority group as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: health care personnel, emergency medical services, and skilled nursing facilities staff and residents.
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MARQUETTE It is anticipated that UP Health System-Marquette will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines by next week, said Dr. Robert Lorinser, medical director of the Marquette County Health Department, Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and Public Health, Delta & Menominee Counties.
“As soon as it’s here, we’re ready to go,” Lorinser said.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services indicated it has set an initial operational goal of vaccinating 70% of individuals age 16 or older, or about 5.6 million people, for COVID-19 by the end of 2021.
Frontline health care workers at two Michigan hospitals on Monday were the first people in the state to receive the COVID-19 vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration as well as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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