One Michigan doctor is making headlines for trekking over 140 miles in his pickup truck to deliver long-awaited coronavirus vaccines to remote rural hospitals.
Dr. Richard Bates, an obstetrician-gynecologist, chronicled his trips with the precious, sub-freezing products Monday morning to MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.The doctor detailed his three-hour drives with Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine from the state’s centrally located, core hospital, MidMichigan Medical Center – Midland to northeast Alpena, and to another rural location, West Branch. "To deliver the vaccine and bring it to our community, to see peoples’ look on their faces, the joy, the hope, that’s been priceless," Bates said.