Northern Michigan health departments accelerate past state in expanding vaccine eligibility

Credit C/O Spectrum Health
Local health districts in Northern Michigan said Thursday they will expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility at a faster pace than state guidelines.
Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services said earlier this week that anyone 50 and older could get vaccinated against the virus starting on Monday, March 22. People in that age group could get vaccinated earlier — March 8 — if they had a pre-existing condition that would make them particularly vulnerable to the virus.
But several Northern Michigan health districts said their March 8 eligibility expansion will include anyone 50 and up, regardless of pre-existing conditions.
In the Northwest and Benzie-Leelanau district health departments, which cover six counties in the northern Lower Peninsula, health officer Lisa Peacock said the state allows for local adjustments to prioritization guidelines. She said for her districts, simplifying the eligibility steps would get more people vaccinated faster.

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