20 takeaways from Whitmerโs COO breaking down COVID vaccine distribution in Michigan
Gretchen Whitmerโs chief operating officer and executive lead on the stateโs operational response to containing COVID-19, Tricia Foster, spoke about vaccine distribution in the state. Whitmerโs COVID update Wednesday (Jan. 13)Here are 20 takeaways from Fosterโs comments:There are over 1,218 registered providers of the COVID-19 vaccine in Michigan. Every dose of the vaccine that Michigan has received has been delivered to a provider, and that provider has scheduled the dose to be administered, Foster said. โI want to be very clear: The state of Michigan is not sitting on doses of vaccine,โ she said. โAs soon as we get the supply we need, weโll begin moving closer to our 50,000 shots per day goal,โ Foster said.
Watch Gov. Whitmerโs full update (Jan. 13) on Michiganโs handling of COVID-19
LANSING, Mich. โ Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer provided an update Wednesday on the stateโs handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. She announced the state is aiming to reopen restaurants for indoor dining in the near future. Michiganโs Chief Operating Officer, Tricia Foster, also provided an update on the stateโs vaccine distribution efforts. UPDATE: Michigan aims to resume indoor dining at restaurants on Feb. 1, Gov.
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โUntil there is a vaccine, social distancing is really the best and only tool that we have to prevent spread. The federal government is helping the state aim for 30,000 daily coronavirus tests, Foster said. Michigan ranks 18th-highest among states on the number of tests per 1,000 residents, according to an Associated Press analysis of data collected by the COVID Tracking Project. โAggressive testing, contact tracing and isolation will be the only way we will get ahead of this disease,โ Khaldun said. The number of new coronavirus cases in Michigan grew slowly again, rising less than 1% to a total of about 47,500 since March.