PORTAGE, Mich. – The shipments of the Pfizer vaccine out of Portage set in motion the largest vaccination effort in American history.
Nearly 3 million doses of the vaccine will be delivered to all 50 states.
In Metro Detroit, that includes Ascension Hospital in Warren and Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, which is expecting just under 1,000 initial doses.
Beaumont Health is estimating they’ll get about 1,000 doses in the first batch before moving up to about 14,000 Pfizer vaccines as production kicks into high-gear.
They have about 11,000 frontline workers who need vaccines, so a lottery system was set up and the first 1,000 workers know who they are.