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City of Detroit Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan got vaccinated for COVID-19 at a televised news conference as part of a campaign to build trust in the state's Black communities. When Zack Taylor heard about the coronavirus vaccine coming to Michigan, the 22-year-old Detroit hip-hop artist responded with an indifferent shrug. COVID-19 claimed the life of his aunt and infected more friends, neighbors, and loved ones than he can remember. He rarely leaves his...

After the Rev. Charles Williams II got his first dose last month of the COVID-19 vaccine, some in his congregation at Historic King Solomon Baptist Church of Detroit were skeptical. "People couldn't believe that I took it," said Williams, a civil rights advocate who leads the Michigan branch of the National Action Network. "They thought something is going to happen to me. ... A lot of folks are still concerned." Some in his predominantly-Black church where Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. once gave noted talks, spun conspiracy theories to Williams and doubted that the vaccine was real. B...

Detroit — Mayor Mike Duggan announced Thursday the city will be expanding access to the COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable - seniors and people who are homeless - and repurposing the TCF Center garage as a public vaccination site. Starting Monday, the city will begin scheduling 20,000 appointments for seniors at the TCF Center garage over the next four weeks, based on the supply of vaccines from the state, Duggan said. The city's expansion follows Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s announcement Wednesday that the state will expand vaccinations to all Michigan residents over the age of 65, to...

Mayor Duggan and other Detroit Leaders take COVID-19 vaccine DETROIT. - On Tuesday, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan was leading by example.  "Here is the first thing someone says to me, are you going to take it first?" Mayor Duggan said. "You get to a point where words don't matter, actions do." Mayor Duggan and other Detroit Leaders take COVID-19 vaccine Mayor Duggan and other Detroit Leaders take COVID-19 vaccine Mayor Duggan was one of the key city leaders who lined up to receive their COVID-19 vaccine shot ahead of the city's deployment initiative.  "We are finally fighting back," Duggan said...

Duggan gets COVID vaccine as city prepares doses for municipal workers Mayor gets first dose in effort to encourage vaccination Duggan says fed cuts to vaccine shipments "very frustrating" Screenshot Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan receives his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said Tuesday he has no plans to mandate city workers receive the newly released vaccines for COVID-19, but stressed the importance of it by getting injected himself. Duggan received his first dose of the vaccine Tuesday ahead of the first doses set to be given Wednesday to rank-and-file city emplo...