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What rural Michigan communities can expect as the coronavirus vaccines start to arrive
Updated Jan 02, 2021;
Posted Jan 02, 2021
Healthcare workers are given the COVID-19 vaccine at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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Michigan’s more northern and rural communities are more likely to use the new Moderna coronavirus vaccine - at least initially as vaccinations ramp up in Michigan.
In December, the FDA granted emergency approval to two vaccines, one collaboratively manufactured by Pfizer and a German company named BioNTech, the other created by Moderna. While both work similarly, the Pfizer vaccine has stricter storage requirements, that some rural communities may not be able to meet.