GARRETT NEESE
Sylvia Ortiz gets her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Nicole Niemi, public health nurse with the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, at Heritage Manor Monday. (Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette)
HOUGHTON — “I’ve had mosquito bites worse than that.”
The words from one resident at Heritage Manor appeared to be shared by many of those who received their first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine there Monday from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department. Sign-ups were open to those 65 and over. Thirty people had signed up for vaccines at Heritage Manor, said Sherry Hughes, executive director of the Houghton Housing Commission.