Biden grants Michigan’s Whitmer 66,000 more vaccine doses, in seeming shift from population-based US plan: rep

President Biden is boosting Michigan’s coronavirus vaccine allotment by more than 66,000 doses for next week after receiving a call for help from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to reports.

The additional doses redirected to Michigan now mean the state will receive more than 620,000 doses next week, a record high for the state, the newspaper reported. "I’m so grateful to have a partner in the White House that has our backs here in Michigan." "We have to make sure that everything is thought through and on the table." "I’m so grateful to have a partner in the White House that has our backs here in Michigan," Whitmer said Tuesday, announcing the score of extra doses from Washington. "We know that the COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective at preventing COVID-19. These additional doses of the safe, effective vaccines will help us slow the spread of the virus, return to normalcy, and continue building our economy back better."