Northwest Michigan Health Services to take part in COVID-19 vaccine pilot program
More than 35K doses to enhance state s vaccine equity strategy
Compiled by Scott Fraley, scott.fraley@pioneergroup.com
March 10, 2021
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A pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
MANISTEE COUNTY Eligible residents in Manistee, Benzie, Mason and Ocean counties soon will have another option for a location to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Over 35,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine are awarded to 22 pilot projects in an effort to help enhance the state’s vaccine equity strategy.
There are few things sweeter than good friends.
A group of women found that out when they joined the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan s diabetes prevention program in 2019. All eight women, who live throughout Farmington Hills, Wayne, Inkster and Dearborn Heights, were pre-diabetic at the time and used the program to lose weight.
Some of them knew each other beforehand and some did not, but they all left the program close friends. When they get together now, greetings come in the form of happy shouts, teasing jokes and pandemic-friendly elbow bumps.
“It’s really a lifestyle change, Octavia Smith, of Inkster, said. It takes time to change a lifestyle, so a year-long program is really beneficial to doing that.”