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Vaccine News How Are Michigan Tribes Ensuring Mass Vaccines? Mobile Clinics.

Michigan’s Indigenous tribes are tackling mass COVID-19 vaccination in new ways to help one of the hardest-hit communities across the country.

Glennisha Morgan Glennisha Morgan May 11, 2021 4:44 pm EDT
Vaccine News A nurse administers the COVID-19 vaccine at Kedren Health on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Vaccine News How the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Changed the Game for Muskegon’s Unhoused Population

The newest vaccine to come to Michigan solves one of the logistical challenges in vaccinating some of those facing the highest risks.

Katelyn Kivel Katelyn Kivel March 18, 2021 4:27 pm EDT
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Education Michigan Teachers Race to Get Vaccinated in Time to Return to Classrooms

As teachers race to get vaccinated in time to return to classrooms March 1, the former president's lack of national strategy has some school districts faring better than others.

Katelyn Kivel Katelyn Kivel February 2, 2021 2:53 pm EST
Vaccine News Registered nurse Paula Levesque, left, administers a second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot to registered nurse Giulia Heiden at Beaumont Health in Southfield, Mich., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021.
Vaccine News Michigan Doctors Frustrated at Vaccine Supply Uncertainty

Reaching herd immunity by August is possible if Michigan almost doubles how many vaccinations it performs every day, but supply issues continue to hold the state back.

Katelyn Kivel Katelyn Kivel January 27, 2021 1:16 pm EST
Vaccine News Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan on December 13, 2020. - The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine was to begin leaving the company's Michigan factory on Sunday, ready to be injected into the arms of millions of the most vulnerable Americans as the global death toll topped 1.6 million.
Vaccine News How Michigan’s Long History With Pfizer Paved the Way for the COVID Vaccine

Still overcoming a rocky vaccine rollout, Michigan and Pfizer have drawn on a deep, shared history to overcome the setbacks.

Katelyn Kivel Katelyn Kivel January 27, 2021 12:40 pm EST

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Vaccine News DETROIT, MI - NOVEMBER 10: A medical worker administers a Flu vaccination during a free flu clinic vaccination event held by Meijer at Comerica Park on November 10, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. With Covid-19 cases skyrocketing around the US medical professionals fear that a bad flu season will only make things worse and further fill hospitals and deplete medical supplies around the nation. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)
Vaccine News Michigan’s Convention Centers Will Become Mass Vaccination Sites

Convention centers from coast to coast, both in Michigan and nationwide, are preparing to vaccinate as many as 20,000 people a day.

Elle Meyers Elle Meyers Katelyn Kivel Katelyn Kivel January 25, 2021 10:44 am EST
Coronavirus A researcher at Aalborg University looks at samples from behind a safety screen during the screening and analysis of all positive Danish coronavirus samples for the virus variant cluster B117 from the United Kingdom, in Aalborg, Denmark on January 15, 2021, during the ongoing novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. - The B117 coronavirus strain, which emerged in Britain late last year, has been shown to be between 40 and 70 percent more contagious than variants which have spread previously.
Coronavirus Michigan Needs More Vaccines to Fight New Coronavirus Variants

As it became clear the assistance states counted on from the federal government weren’t coming, Michigan diagnosed its first case of the more infectious B.1.1.7 strain of COVID.

Katelyn Kivel Katelyn Kivel January 19, 2021 11:25 am EST