Big disparities exist in Kent County’s COVID-19 vaccination rates. Here’s what volunteers are doing about it
Updated May 08, 2021;
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI Kristi Lewis and Deb Borst huddled over a map in the parking lot of Madison Square Church, plotting their route in the fight against COVID-19.
On this particular afternoon, that fight meant going door to door in the city’s 49507 ZIP code. It’s one of the hardest-hit areas in Grand Rapids by the pandemic, and yet the estimated number of residents who have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is among the lowest in Kent County.