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Dec 24, 2020 Many are wondering when the COVID-19 vaccine will be available to them. The COVID-19 vaccine has been distributed to many provider organizations across Michigan and continues to be distributed and received as supply allows. Your local public health department encourages all citizens age 16 and older to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In consideration of limited supply, COVID-19 vaccine distribution must follow strict guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in order to ensure those with the most ...

Midland adds 1 COVID death, 42 cases Wednesday Health director addresses vaccinations for at-home elderly Dec. 23, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness ...

Midland County Health Department gets Moderna vaccine Vaccinations underway for medical first responders Dec. 22, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Nicole Swanton, public health preparedness coordinator, is given the Moderna vaccine on Monday by nurse Shelley Kruskie. (Photo/Midland County Health Department) Midland County health department team members were in a vaccine clinic planning meeting Monday when a text popped up announcing a shipment of the Moderna vaccine had just arrived. "We knew we were going to receive it but we didn't know when," said Nicole Swanton, public health preparedness coo...

But a return to normal for Klamath County is still a long way off. Two Legacy Health facilities in the Portland area each received 975 doses of the vaccine on Monday, and two more facilities in Portland and one in Ontario will each receive the same amount on Tuesday. The Oregon Health Authority said it will distribute a total of 35,100 doses to hospitals and 10,725 doses to skilled nursing facilities throughout the state this week. Two more shipments in December will provide an additional 63,300 doses. Developed with German company BioNTech, Pfizer’s vaccine was found to be 95% effective in...

cbleck@miningjournal.net MARQUETTE — It is anticipated that UP Health System-Marquette will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines by next week, said Dr. Robert Lorinser, medical director of the Marquette County Health Department, Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and Public Health, Delta & Menominee Counties. “As soon as it’s here, we’re ready to go,” Lorinser said. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services indicated it has set an initial operational goal of vaccinating 70% of individuals age 16 or older, or about...