COVID-19 vaccine is a ‘blessing,’ says first West Michigan doctor to receive a dose
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Dr. Marc McClelland, a physician at Spectrum Health, was the Grand Rapids-based health system s first employee to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (Courtesy Spectrum Health)
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On Monday, at 12:04 p.m., he made good on his pledge.
McClelland was the first employee at Spectrum Health, and among the first statewide, to receive a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. The drug’s distribution kicked off Monday, and is being called the biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history.
“This is really a blessing that this has become available to us so soon,” said McClelland, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Spectrum Health Butterworth, whose recent work has centered on COVID-19 patients who are “very sick” and on ventilators. “It’s the culmination of hard work by many, many people. Many of the most brilliant minds in
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Frontline health care workers at two Michigan hospitals have become the first in the state to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Among those receiving vaccinations Monday was 46-year-old pulmonary and critical care physician Marc McClelland at Spectrum Health Butterworth in Grand Rapids. Vaccinations also were carried out at Michigan Medical in Ann Arbor. They came as the state reported 7,205 newly confirmed coronavirus cases and 90 deaths Sunday and Monday. The state says additional Michigan hospitals are expected to begin vaccinating health care staff later this week. Health care workers across the country began receiving the vaccine Monday marking the start of the biggest vaccination campaign in American history.
Coronavirus in Michigan: Here’s what to know Dec. 14, 2020
7,205 new COVID cases reported Sunday-Monday
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Michigan COVID-19 data through Dec. 14, 2020 (WDIV)
DETROIT – The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan has risen to 437,985 as of Monday, including 10,752 deaths, state officials report.
New COVID-19 cases are slowing but deaths continue to rise in Michigan. Testing has remained steady, with more than 45,000 diagnostic tests reported per day, with the positive rate decreasing to near 11% over the last wee. Hospitalizations have increased steadily for the last five weeks, including upticks in critical care and ventilator use.
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Michigan’s 7-day moving average for daily cases was 5,106 on Sunday, lower than one week ago. The 7-day death average was 125, the highest since April. The state’s fatality rate is 2.5%. The state also reports “active cases,” which were listed at 183,700 on Sunday. Mo
Share December 14, 2020, 12:50 PM It s a great day at Michigan Medicine, a tweet from the University of Michigan hospital says with the photos below. The Ann Arbor facility announced that it received 1,950 doses of the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech [Covid] vaccine at about 9 a.m. this morning and added: We plan to begin vaccinating our employees who are most at risk this week. Similar deep-freeze boxes reached or are on their way to four other hospitals around the state, including Beaumont Troy and Ascension in Warren. In all, Michigan gets 84,825 doses initially from Pfizer s plant in Kalamazoo, according to the state health department. Another 173,600 vials of a Moderna vaccine will be shipped if OK d by the federal Food and Drug Administration this Thursday.
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