A Saginaw hospital's celebration highlighted its nursing history. Inadvertently, the festivities reunited two sisters with an artifact they last saw decades ago.
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Vaccines dramatically reduces COVID-19 risk, experts say, though infections still possible
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 doses are prepared at a vaccine outreach clinic at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The clinic was put on by the Kalamazoo County Health Department with volunteers from Mt. Zion. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)
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Yes, the COVID-19 vaccine works.
After two weeks, one vaccine shot is 80% effective at preventing infections, while a second shot carries 90% effectiveness, according to a new CDC study.
“Our data from the CDC today suggest that vaccinated people do not carry the virus,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky in an MSNBC interview from Tuesday, March 30.
Michigan’s COVID-19 surge is the worst in the nation. Whitmer is focused on vaccines, not restrictions.
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer talks with Detroit Lions Team President and CEO Rod Wood as they walk off the stage after a press conference announcing a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Ford Field in Detroit, on Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)
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Last week at an event hosted by the Michigan Chronicle, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did a rare in-person interview. She had been doing most of them remotely due to the risk of COVID-19, and the risk wasn’t any lower that day, as she sat in the studio unmasked.