Michigan’s COVID-19 vaccination rate is showing no signs of rapid improvement in the weeks since Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the MI Shot to Win Sweepstakes. About 92-thousand people have gotten at least one inoculation since the July 1st announcement.
Speaking on WDET’s Detroit Today… Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist says conservatives have hurt the vaccination effort by spreading misinformation.
GILCHRIST:“We've seen you know, Republican partisans be very, very vociferously anti-vaccine in Michigan, just like they have in other parts of the country.”
A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey told The Detroit News that the Republican isn’t in favor of the vaccination lottery… calling it “coercive.”
While stopping short of saying the lottery has been a failure… he said the state is working on other messaging campaigns to get people to reconsider their stance on vaccinations.