Facing COVID surge, Michigan to get help but not more vaccines

The Biden administration plans to help Michigan better administer the doses already allocated to the state.

Washington is rushing federal resources to support vaccinations, testing and therapeutics – but not vaccines – to Michigan in an effort to control the state’s worst in the nation COVID-19 transmission rate, the White House said on Friday. President Joe Biden outlined the moves late on Thursday in a call with Governor Gretchen Whitmer to discuss the situation in the state, The Associated Press reported. It will not include a “surge” of vaccine doses, a move Whitmer has advocated. Instead, Biden outlined how the federal government was planning to help Michigan better administer the doses already allocated to the state, as well as increase testing capacity and drugs for virus treatment.