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(PRESIDIO, Texas) — Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip. He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative. Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 — a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy. The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase his risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But Figueroa lives in Presidio, Texas, a city of about 4,000 people on the U.S.-Mexico border where there’s no hospital, ...

‘Pharmacy deserts’ are new front in the race to vaccinate for COVID-19 Courtesy of Linda MolinarBy SOO RIN KIM, ERIN SCHUMAKER,  MARK NICHOLS, and EVAN SIMON, ABC News (PRESIDIO, Texas) — Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip. He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative. Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 — a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy. The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase...

Around 70% of those getting vaccinated at God’s Path’s event were Detroit residents, according to Turner. The rest were Turner’s patients or their family members.

People age 55 and older, regardless of if they live in the city or not, can now get vaccinated at Detroit's TCF Center site if they act as a "good neighbor" by bringing along an older Detroiter in the same car. The drive-through mass COVID-19 vaccination center downtown can be hard to get to for…

The City of Detroit, as well as the Wayne and Macomb county health departments, are working to vaccinate more of their senior citizens, who are some of the most vulnerable to the coronavirus, by opening more clinics for them starting this week. Detroit officials announced Tuesday that two new appointment-only Senior Saturday locations for Detroiters at Grace Community Church on the east side and the Kemeny Recreation Center on the west side will open starting this weekend. The city also is planning to work with community partners to bring mobile vaccination clinics to pop-up sites, givi...