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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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Racial disparities in Covid-19 case rates among young people were prevalent early in the pandemic, CDC study says

Early in the pandemic, young people from all racial and ethnic minority groups had higher Covid-19 case rates than non-Hispanic White people under the age of 25, according to a study published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between January and April, case rates compared to young White people were about

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