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by  Alan Stamm (Photos: U.S. Centers for Disease Control) Covid shots were given to 59,000 Michiganians through Sunday, state data shows. First-stage recipients are health workers and nursing home residents. Michigan has received 278,275 doses of coronavirus vaccines since Dec. 14 from Pfizer and Moderna under a federal distribution system, including 47,200 doses last week.  Thirty percent of Michigan s vials have reached the tricounty Detroit area. (Details are below.) Vaccines began Monday at nursing homes, which have accounted for more than 4,400 of Michigan s 12,089 pandemic deaths. Shots are being given by pharmacists from Walgreens and CVS. Residents of these facilities are at high risk for severe illness and death from the virus, and early vaccination of both residents and those caring for them is critical to help protect this population, says Dr. Joneigh Khaldun,the governor s chief medical executive, in a statement Monday. More

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