COVID Vaccine Arrives in the Copper Country

The first COVID-19 vaccines in the Copper Country were given yesterday to health care workers in the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. Native American tribes are being supplied directly from the federal Indian Health Services program.

Officials from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department expect that frontline health care workers across the region will start to receive their shots next week. EMS personnel and those who work at long term care facilities are also high on the list.

While officials expect to receive a continuous supply of vaccine, they still project that there won’t be enough available to begin immunizing the general public until spring of 2021.