Today, on Stateside, beginning April 5th all Michigan residents aged 16 and up will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. But are health departments ready for this new wave? Plus, so many of us looking forward to life after the pandemic, but how exactly do we return to normal?
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County health departments prepare for onslaught of vaccine-eligible people
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Stateside’s conversation with Adam London
- Adam London is the Health Officer for Kent County Health Department
First came the mice. Then, Lyme disease.
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Interlochen Public Radio’s Lexi Krupp reports
- Lexi Krupp is the Science and Conservation Reporter for Interlochen Public Radio
How to reduce anxiety and stress around reopening and getting back to normal
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Stateside’s conversation with Arash Javanbakht
- Arash Javanbakht is director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic at Wayne State’s department of psychiatry
What the COVID relief package means for Michigan’s economy
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Stateside’s conversation with Melissa Nann Burk and Charles Ballard
- Melissa Nann Burk is a Detroit News reporter based in D.C.
- Charles Ballard is an economist and professor at Michigan State University
