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What's it like to get your COVID-19 shot at Ford Field? Freep reporter tells his story
What's it like to get your COVID-19 shot at Ford Field? Freep reporter tells his story
Eric D. Lawrence
Detroit Free Press
I got my shot on Tuesday.
Actually, it was the first of two. The second one is set for April 13, which is three weeks after my first.
I was part of a soft opening for the mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Ford Field in Detroit before the full show begins on Wednesday.
You want to know whether it was easy, whether it was painful, did I have to wait long, did I feel any side effects, which shot was it, and of course, whether you should get it.
....(snip)....
Parking and getting in
Was it quick? Yes. I arrived at the Gem Theatre parking garage on Brush Street just before 10 a.m. (parking was free) and found a spot on level 4. I was outside, walking across the street to Ford Field in a matter of minutes and directed inside, where a nice woman at the door asked me to roll up my jacket sleeve and took my temperature with a scan of my arm. She also asked whether I’d had any of a number of symptoms of illness in the last 14 days, and sent me along when I said I had not. ..............(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/03/24/vaccine-covid-19-freep-reporter-tells-his-story/6969795002/