//Doctor drives 3 hours to get COVID-19 vaccine to rural Michigan hospital

Doctor drives 3 hours to get COVID-19 vaccine to rural Michigan hospital

A Michigan doctor and his silver pickup truck are playing a key role in getting the COVID-19 vaccine to remote parts of the state.Dr. Richard Bates drove almost 150 miles earlier this month to take a cooler carrying 130 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from the MidMichigan Medical Center in Midland to their hospital in Alpena — a city of about 10,000 people on Lake