The Wayne County Public Health Division "has replaced the use of J&J vaccine with Pfizer or Moderna at any scheduled clinics and will continue to use these vaccines based on availability. More: Michigan pauses Johnson & Johnson vaccines after FDA raises concern of rare blood clotsĪppointments at the TCF Center garage and Saturday community center clinics in Detroit are not affected because health officials have always administered Pfizer or Moderna vaccines at those sites.
You will receive an appointment for your second dose 3-4 weeks later," she said. "If you were scheduled for a J&J shot and want to keep your same appointment, you will be given the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. We’re ready for them.”įair said the city has a sufficient supply of Moderna and Pfizer shots to vaccinate everyone who had an appointment scheduled this week at the Northwest Activities Center or the neighborhood clinics for a Johnson & Johnson vaccine. And more than 125,000 Detroiters have come through it. It is the easiest drive-thru center in the country. I’m not wavering from what I said at the beginning, we’re gonna have a strategy in Detroit that relies heavily on Moderna/Pfizer. We need to get vaccinated."ĭuggan said he "made a decision that Detroit was gonna be Moderna/Pfizer-based, based on my own research and 98% of Detroiters have chosen Moderna/Pfizer." He said the Johnson & Johnson pause "doesn’t have as much effect in Detroit as it does in other places."ĭuggan said he thinks the Johnson & Johnson vaccine "is probably gonna turn out to be OK, but I’m leaving that to the doctors. It’s the highest number we’ve seen in a year. So from the city of Detroit’s standpoint, doesn’t change our strategy."ĭuggan said there are "more than 400 people in the hospital right now just in the city of Detroit. We’ve got enough Moderna/Pfizer to handle everybody all week scheduled for Johnson & Johnson. "Today, those scheduled for Johnson & Johnson, we just switched to Moderna/Pfizer. We offered the Johnson & Johnson option, so far only 2% took it." We’ve given out 250,000 doses - 246,000 have been Moderna/Pfizer. So 98% of Detroiters have gotten the Moderna/Pfizer vaccines. Mayor Mike Duggan on Tuesday said the city "has had a Moderna/Pfizer based strategy from the beginning. The separate clinic was established after Detroit initially declined to accept its initial allotment of 6,200 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines early last month, but then decided to take the shots at a later time. In Detroit, Chief Public Health Officer Denise Fair said the health department would halt the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine "until further notice." The city was running a separate clinic for the one-shot dose at the Northwest Activities Center on Meyers Road.
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