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The Veterans Administration is joining other health systems in Michigan that are requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. There are five VA medical centers in Michigan: Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit, Iron Mountain, and Saginaw.
Other health systems in Michigan that are mandating the COVID vaccine are Trinity Health, OFS HealthCare, and Henry Ford Health System.
The VA s vaccine mandate applies to Title 38 employees, which include physicians, physicians assistants, registered nurses, dentists, and other medical professionals. According to the VA s COVID-19 National Summary, 7103 VA employees in Michigan are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Dr. Pino Colone is an emergency medical physician at Henry Ford Health, and the president of the Michigan State Medical Society. He says he s pleased to see so many people vaccinated.
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The announcement signals the end of social and business restrictions that have upended life since the first case of the deadly virus arrived in Michigan in March 2020, infecting nearly 890,000 residents and killing 18,740.
The decision marks the second major revision of Whitmer’s “vacc to normal” plan in the past two weeks.
The first-term Democrat last week lifted the state’s mask mandate for fully vaccinated residents following new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Those CDC guidelines, which also said social distancing is no longer necessary for fully vaccinated people, warranted further revisions to the state’s reopening plan, Whitmer said.
Mukkamala, who is past chair of the Michigan State Medical Society and also co-owns restaurants in downtown Flint, had questions of his own:
Who will enforce this? Will restaurant staffers be expected to ask patrons if they’ve gotten the shot? Scientifically it makes perfect sense, Mukkamala said of Whitmer s new order, which follows guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and reflects data showing vaccine recipients are much less likely to contract or get sick when they are exposed to the virus.
“When you look at the people that are ending up in the hospital now, it s 99 percent of them are people that have not been vaccinated.”