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Credit C/O Spectrum Health Local health districts in Northern Michigan said Thursday they will expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility at a faster pace than state guidelines. Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services said earlier this week that anyone 50 and older could get vaccinated against the virus starting on Monday, March 22. People in that age group could get vaccinated earlier March 8 if they had a pre-existing condition that would make them particularly vulnerable to the virus. But several Northern Michigan health districts said their March 8 eligibility expansion will include anyone 50 and up, regardless of pre-existing conditions. In the Northwest and Benzie-Leelanau district health departments, which cover six counties in the northern Lower Peninsula, health officer Lisa Peacock said the state allows for local adjustments to prioritization guidelines. She said for her districts, simplifying the eligibility steps would get more people vaccina ....
Group Quarters A formula then weighs that data to give each county (or census tract) a score to indicate how socially vulnerable it is with 0 being the lowest (least vulnerable) possible score, and 1 the highest. Credit Michigan Department of Health and Human Services This formula isn’t something Michigan created or uses on its own. Nor is it the sole factor the state uses for vaccine allocation. The state also takes into account population size, and the percentage of a population that serves so-called priority groups groups the state has designated as “first in line” to get the COVID vaccine. Those include people 65 and older, the number of frontline essential workers, educators, and corrections officers (this applies to local public health entities like county health departments, and to hospital systems based on the populations they serve). ....
“Extreme call volumes.” Crashing servers. Cancellations. And one county says it’s been completely wiped out of vaccine supply by Monday afternoon. Fred Peoples, left, receives the COVID-19 vaccine early Monday morning at a West Michigan clinic run by Spectrum Health. By noon, the health system said it had vaccinated 575 people in the community, and planned to vaccinate as many as 10,000 by the end of the week. Credit C/O Spectrum Health The airplane is being built as we fly it here, folks. That’s the message from hospitals and local health officials around the state Monday, as they started (or in some cases, tried to start) vaccinating people 65 and older, as well as some essential workers. ....