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Health departments in Michigan have begun turning down vaccine allocations from the state because they’re unable to find enough people willing to get the
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Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail describes the dropoff in the number of vaccination appointments as “dramatic, adding at one point in time we were up to 10, 11, 12,000 scheduled appointments in a week. This week, we are anticipating 5,851.”
Still, the county is ordering more vaccine. Pfizer’s vaccine may soon be approved for children as young as 12, and that would likely lead to an uptick in demand.
Vail has decided to order more vaccine even though the department doesn’t currently need it. “At this point in time, she explains, we are going to have enough vaccine on hand that, whether the state sends us more, or there’s something goes wrong with the manufacturing where they had to throw out millions of doses, those sorts of things, that we won’t be impacted like that.”
Vaccinating Michigan teens and young adults will be key to lifting pandemic limits and reaching herd immunity. Health officials are scrambling to make COVID vaccines available to high school students, who are getting shots at far lower rates.
Michiganders returning for second COVID-19 shot at above-average rates
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer receives her second dose of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. Joneigh Khaldun at DeVos Place on Thursday, April 29, 2021 in Grand Rapids. (Hope Davison | MLive.com)Hope Davison
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Michigan residents are returning on time for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a better rate than the national average.
The two most widely used vaccines in the U.S. developed by Pfizer and Moderna require a second dose spaced 21 and 28 days apart, respectively. The second shot is necessary for maximum effectiveness against severe cases of COVID-19.