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An illustration of the coronavirus provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ALPENA — The number of Northeast Michiganders actively infected with COVID-19 decreased today for the first time since October as local public health officials reported more new recoveries than new infections.
And, in more good news in the coronavirus fight, frontline health care workers at two Michigan hospitals became the first in the state to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Pulmonary and critical care physician Marc McClelland, 46, was among those receiving vaccinations today at Spectrum Health Butterworth in Grand Rapids. Vaccinations also were carried out at Michigan Medical in Ann Arbor.