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Michigan can vaccinate 80K people a day, but supply limited

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Prepared COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine syringes are seen at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Illinois received about 43,000 doses in its first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine Monday as health officials reported another 103 coronavirus deaths statewide. Most of the shots will be distributed to local health care centers for health care workers, according to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's office. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — State health officials say Michigan has capacity to vaccinate up to 80,000 people a day but the supply of COVID-19 doses, while higher in recent weeks, remains limited.

They said Friday that their goal is to ensure no one has to travel more than 20 minutes to a vaccination site in the pandemic.

A priority is allocating doses to areas based on factors such as poverty, lack of transportation and crowded housing — correlating to places hard hit when the pandemic struck last spring, such as Detroit.

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