Michigan officials hope vulnerability index, Ford Field clinic will help address vaccination disparities
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 17, 2021
Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist on Thursday, Dec. 3, unveiled an interim report from the Michigan COVID-19 Task Force on Racial Disparities, which he leads.
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LANSING, MI - About 1.97 million Michigan residents have been fully vaccinated, but just 4.2% of them are Black, according to figures from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Black Michiganders make up more than 14% of the state’s population. Asian Americans, who make up about 3.4% of the population, represent only 1.28% of Michiganders who have been fully vaccinated, according to state data - which isn’t entirely complete.
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A man hands paperwork to a worker at a temporary Meijer COVID-19 vaccination clinic set up on the concourse of Ford Field on March 1.
Meijer said it registered more than 35,000 people in less than 24 hours after opening registration for the upcoming COVID-19 vaccination clinics that begin next week at Ford Field in Detroit.
After some technical delays, registration opened about 4 p.m. Monday and increased by about 2,000 per hour Tuesday.
Since launching its COVID-19 vaccine registry in January, Meijer said it has registered more than 1.7 million people for the vaccine at its pharmacies and the Ford Field site across the Midwest. The Grand Rapids area-based retailer said it has administered more than 201,000 doses of the vaccine to Michigan residents so far.
/PRNewswire/ Meijer registered more than 35,000 people in less than 24 hours after opening registration for the upcoming COVID-19 vaccination clinics that.
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Compiled by Scott Fraley, scott.fraley@pioneergroup.com
March 10, 2021
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A pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
MANISTEE COUNTY Eligible residents in Manistee, Benzie, Mason and Ocean counties soon will have another option for a location to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Over 35,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine are awarded to 22 pilot projects in an effort to help enhance the state’s vaccine equity strategy.