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Don’t visit your grandparents quite yet, even if they get the vaccine
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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Many people have gone months without seeing aging or other vulnerable parents, grandparents and close friends due to fears they will unintentionally pass along the deadly COVID-19 virus.
Arrival of vaccines prompts the question: Will it be safe to visit aging grandparents, parents or those with underlying health issues once they’ve been vaccinated for the coronavirus? The ambiguous answer from Michigan health officials, medical professionals and vaccine manufacturers is: no, not entirely.
“So that’s the million-dollar question right now,” said Dr. Darryl Elmouchi, president of Spectrum Health West Michigan, a division of Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids. “FDA and CDC are warning that people who are immunized might get a ‘subclinical infection,’ meaning that you might get COVID, but you just don’t have any symptoms. And you might be contagious during that p
Spectrum s first vaccination clinic vaccinates hundreds
and last updated 2020-12-15 22:49:03-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Spectrum Health has now vaccinated hundreds of its employees during its large scale vaccine clinic, the first of many taking place Tuesday at three regional hospitals. Those locations included Butterworth Hospital, Big Rapids and Lakeland.
As of Tuesday, Spectrum has 1,950 doses on hand and is expecting up to three more shipments this week. They are currently vaccinating frontline health care workers from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, more than 150 employees had been vaccinated by lunchtime. Once they receive more shipments, however, Spectrum intends on vaccinating around 6,000 people per week.
COVID-19 numbers in Michigan and Ohio rose in lockstep this fall. Then the trendlines went in opposite directions.
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Seven-day-average of new coronavirus cases in Michigan from Oct. 15 through Dec. 14. Michigan implemented coronavirus-related restrictions on Nov. 18.
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As the Midwest experienced a fall surge of coronavirus, Ohio and Michigan had almost identical trendlines from mid-October through mid-November in their daily average of new COVID-19 cases.
Then third week of November, the trendlines began to diverge. Michigan’s numbers largely plateaued before trending down in December. Ohio’s caseload has continued to go up.
Ohio now ranks third in the country its seven-day average of new coronavirus cases per capita, according to a ranking by the Harvard Global Health Initiative. Michigan is 36th.
At least one other shipment of vaccines arrived Monday, delivered to Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with more shipments expected in coming days, hospital and state leaders have said.
The vaccine could be the turning point toward a full reopening of the economy, though health leaders have been quick to note that the vaccine likely won’t be ready for distribution to the general public until at least spring once vaccines have been given to highest priority groups first.
But many may remain more reluctant to embrace a vaccine that was given emergency clearance by the federal government over the weekend for a virus that has now killed more than 300,000 in the United States.