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Health department holding clinics to vaccinate indigenous residents

Click here for updates on this story     SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Thousands of indigenous residents in mid-Michigan have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine due to a partnership between the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and Central Michigan District Health Department. Ever Tuesday and Thursday since mid-January the health department has held vaccination clinics at the Soaring Eagle

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Smithsonian receives vial from the first Covid-19 vaccine dose administered in the US

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has received the vial from the first authorized Covid-19 vaccine dose administered in the United States, along with other artifacts related to the record-breaking vaccine process. Northwell Health, which administered the vaccine, donated the vial from intensive care unit nurse Sandra Lindsay’s Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination. It also donated her

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Los Angeles school district reaches tentative agreement to reopen for in-person learning by April

The nation’s second-largest school district has reached a tentative deal with a teachers’ union to reopen its schools for at least some in-person learning by April. Los Angeles Unified School District, which closed its buildings to in-person learning in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, would open in a “hybrid” fashion combining online and

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