Upcoming Northern Michigan COVID-19 Clinics
June 9, 2021
Below is a listing of those clinics:
Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics
• Thursday, June 10th, 2021, from 12 noon – 6 p.m. at Crystal Cafe, 1681 Benzie Hwy, Benzonia (open to 12 or older, parent/guardian must accompany minor). To schedule an appointment: Click here.
• Friday, June 11th, 2021, from 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Northport Farmers Market, 105 S. Bay Street, Northport 49670 (open to 12 or older, parent/guardian must accompany minor). Pop-up clinic, walk-ins welcome.
CMDHD COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics
Central Michigan District Health Department encourages all individuals, ages 12 and above, to schedule a first dose COVID-19 vaccination appointment through our website at www.cmdhd.org, or stop in at one of our community pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics. If you need help in scheduling, please call your local health department branch office (press 6).
CADILLAC â As COVID-19 positivity rates drop, Munson s top doctor is calling it really good news.
Dr. Christine Nefcy, chief of medicine for Munson Healthcare, made the remark during Tuesday s press conference featuring local health departments and hosted by Munson. You can see our rolling average for percent positivity is at 3.3%, which is awesome, Dr. Nefcy said. It s been a long time since we ve been that low.
The Munson region s cases per 100,000 is at 59 and the hospital system had 10 patients, with three in Cadillac.
Though rates of new cases are falling, COVID-19 can still be fatal to those who do catch the virus that causes it. A Lake County and an Osceola County death were recorded on Tuesday.
REED CITY — Osceola County s vaccination rate is lagging behind other counties in the area. Among the four counties in the Cadillac News coverage area, Osceola County s vaccination rate, as
Wexford County
State data had Wexford Countyâs pandemic total holding at 2,539. State data had deaths at 43, though the most recent local health department data had deaths at 41 (District Health Department No. 10 had not updated the coronavirus daily dashboard at the Cadillac News deadline; however, the two numbers typically are off by two). The seven-day average positivity rate was 5.2% with the most recent data from May 31.
Vaccine completion rates in the following age brackets were: 24.7% for teens 16 to 19; 24% for people in their 20s; 33.5% for people in their 30s; 41.5% for people in their 40s; 54.5% for people 50 to 64; 73.9% for people 65 to 74 and 74.9% for people 75-plus. The overall completion rate was 45.4%; the initiation rate was 50.6%. Kids age 12 to 15 have not been eligible for vaccination long enough to be fully vaccinated. The initiation rate in Wexford County for the youngest eligible age bracket is 12.9%. The most recent vaccine data was from May 31.