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Pfizer has submitted data on its bivalent COVID-19 booster shot that specifically targets the latest omicron subvariants. If authorized, the company says the shots could be ready as soon as September.

Two reporters from The Detroit News joined to recap recent Michigan-related testimony given at the January 6 committee hearing, as well as what Michiganders should know about new vaccines for kids under 5. Then, we discussed new viewing stations for colorblind visitors in the Porcupine Mountains, and a journalist shared her story of reporting on Mount Pleasant's residential boarding school.

NPR talks to Claire Hannan, who has helped navigate vaccine rollouts in all 50 states, about some of the challenges involved in quickly getting shots out to millions of young kids.

Doctors and health departments are starting to offer appointments, as doses are being distributed throughout the state.

Researchers asked more than 1,100 adolescents and young adults about various incentives offered to young people to get a COVID vaccine

A year ago, Dr. Marc McClelland thought he'd seen the worst of COVID-19 in his ICUs. Now he says it's worse than ever, and almost all his patients are unvaccinated.

Today, a health equity expert discusses a recent drop in child vaccination rates. Then, owners of the landmark M Go Blue Barn let us in on recent plans to transform the space into a restaurant, and an Atlantic staff writer summarizes his recent profile of Representative Peter Meijer.

How can COVID-19 be surging again in Michigan when more than five million people in the state have been fully vaccinated? Millions of others remain unvaccinated. Statewide data show the overwhelming majority of hospitalizations and deaths are being driven by people who haven't gotten the vaccine.

Michigan has been allocated 287 thousand doses of the pediatric Pfizer vaccine.

Hundreds of people gathered Friday afternoon outside the state Capitol to protest vaccine mandates.Many cheered when rally organizer Pastor Jason Georges…