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Michigan getting more COVID-19 vaccine doses next week than expected Michigan's allotment of COVID-19 vaccine for next week will be nearly twice what was expected after the federal government informed state health officials late Wednesday that it will release an additional 60,000 doses, health officials said. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services learned on Tuesday that the state would receive 62,400 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for next week — a number that fell far short of what health providers have asked for. MDHHS informed the Detroit News on Wednesday that it would ...

Poor planning and bureaucracy slow vaccination of nursing homes David Hogberg © Provided by Washington Examiner In mid-December, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar suggested that most nursing homes would receive the coronavirus vaccine by Christmas. In fact, most vaccinations of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities didn’t begin until after the holiday. Popular Searches While Azar’s prediction was surely far too rosy, it highlights a process that has been delayed due to poor planning and bureaucratic red tape. Most states have joined with the feder...

Print When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended last month that residents and staff of long-term care facilities be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, Sondra Norder breathed a sigh of relief. The president and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin has seen 100 residents contract COVID-19 across her two campuses over the course of the pandemic. Twenty-eight have died. “The trauma we have been through, the isolation we have been through, the demand physically and mentally over the last 10 months — we’ve just been disproportionately impacted,”...

“It sounds like your local health department is going faster than others have.” The Health Department’s goal is to administer 500 doses per day, depending on staffing, Lo Giudice said. That is 2,500 per week. At that rate, it could still take 68 weeks, almost a year and a half, to vaccinate everyone, so he pins his hopes on the supply increasing as soon as possible. After starting with medical personnel and first responders, group 1a, the Health Department started vaccinating people 75 and older, group 1b, last week. Demand overwhelmed supply from day one, and the Department went to ap...

Midland, Ashton Medical Lodge residents and staff to receive COVID-19 vaccine Residents and staff at both facilities who have chosen to become immunized will begin receiving the virus as early as the second week of January. Author: NewsWest 9 Updated: 12:27 PM CST January 12, 2021 MIDLAND, Texas — Officials with Ashton Medical Lodge and Midland Medical Lodge announced residents and staff members will begin receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in January. This is all part of Phase 1B of the plan to vaccinate Texans. This phase includes high-risk people like r...