CVS vaccinates 12,000 nursing home, assisted living residents for COVID-19 in Michigan

CVS has administered almost 12,000 of the Moderna vaccines to residents and staff at Michigan nursing homes and a handful of other long-term care facilities, according to numbers released Wednesday morning by the pharmacy chain.

CVS is one of two pharmacies vaccinating residents and staff members of those types of facilities as part of the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-term Care Program. It said it plans to vaccinate about 140,000 people in Michigan over the next 12 weeks. Walgreens, the other pharmacy contracted with the federal government to administer vaccines has not released any data on the number of vaccines it has administered, how many it plans to administer or a timetable for doing so.

The CVS numbers are to be updated daily on weekdays at around 4 p.m., providing a snapshot of the progress being made in Michigan as well as the rest of the country. To see the dashboard, click here.

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Michigan is lagging behind most of the rest of the nation in administering vaccines to those with top priority, which includes health care workers and nursing home residents, according to the U.S. Centers for disease Control and Prevention. It has a vaccination rate of 992 per 100,000 people. Only five other states — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia — rate lower in vaccines per capita.

The most recent information, last updated on Jan 5, shows that CVS has given 11,385 first dose shots to residents and staff at nursing homes and 470 shots to residents at assisted and other long-term care facilities.

CVS said it began vaccinations in Michigan on Dec. 28.

According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, more than 300,000 people live in long term care facilities.

Contact Georgea Kovanis: gkovanis@freepress.com

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