Walk-in vaccination sites debut in Detroit with no appointment needed
By Ingrid Kelley and David Komer online producer
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DETROIT (FOX 2) - The city of Detroit continues its push to get residents vaccinated with appointments no longer needed for the city s vaccination sites. It took less than five minutes to come in, fill out paperwork, and get vaccinated, said Jacqueline Turner.
City of Detroit opens no appointment needed vaccinations
The city of Detroit has officially opened four vaccination sites taking walk-in patients with no appointment required.
Turner says she had been putting off getting the vaccine, also known as vaccine hesitancy.
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DETROIT – Michigan is being called the epicenter of COVID-19 once again as the numbers across the state continue to climb.
If that wasn’t bad enough, city leaders are now saying Detroit is seeing a new surge of COVID cases. This time those positive cases are in a different age demographic.
“I can’t talk about the Coronavirus affecting the people of Detroit without talking about how it affected me,” said Orlando Bailey.
31-year-old Orlando Bailey is from Detroit. He’s one of the hundreds of thousands of people coping with the coronavirus outbreak. Like many, he lost a loved one to this deadly pandemic.
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The CDC has recommended Michigan go into lockdown, but both the city and state are reluctant to do so.
Screenshot of City of Detroit press conference
Amid an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases, Detroit and state officials are focusing on vaccinations instead of restrictions to mitigate the spread.
So far, less than a quarter of Detroiters has received the inoculations, one of the lowest rates in metro Detroit. The city’s vaccination rate is 25% compared to 39% in Macomb and 48% in Oakland County. About 128,000 residents have received at least one shot this year, according to Mayor Mike Duggan.
Share April 15, 2021, 6:39 AM Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan took a distressed tone at his Wednesday Covid-19 briefing, pleading with unvaccinated residents to get the free shot as soon as possible.
Drive-through service for a lifesaving shot. (Photo: Nancy Derringer) Sky-high rates of cases in Michigan s Thumb region are spreading toward us and leaving our neighbors vulnerable in a terrible way because the city s vaccination rate remains low. (It s at 24.7% of residents 16 and older.) In fact, Duggan said, the city is discussing possibly offering incentives to get reluctant Detroiters to vaccination sites. Duggan on Wednesday laid out the city s plan to ramp up vaccination awareness in Detroit with community forums, a door-knocking campaign and virtual tools to locate the closest of 24 citywide vaccine sites as vaccinations lag surrounding counties and the positivity rate has soared to nearly 21% from just 3.5% in late March.
Morning Briefing April 15, 2021: Beaumont hospitals reach critical capacity as virus infections soar, Detroit urges residents to get COVID shot as vaccine participation dwindles
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FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Chrissie Burkhiser cleans an emergency room suite after treating a COVID-19 patient at Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Beaumont Health says its Metro Detroit hospitals and staff have reached critical capacity levels amid the virus surge.
Officials announced Thursday morning that the number of COVID-19 patients at Beaumont hospitals has reached more than 800, exceeding the volume of patients seen during the state’s last virus surge in the fall. The health care system was reportedly only caring for 128 COVID-19 patients on Feb. 28.