Numbered, black-curtained cubicles line the concourse surrounding the field where the Detroit Lions play as state and federal leaders shift Ford Field from football stadium to the state's first federally operated mass COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the heart of Detroit.
Inside those cubicles, hundreds of thousands of Michiganders will get COVID-19 vaccines over the next eight weeks in a massive effort to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible to tame the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said the state's residents must commit to taking COVID-19 vaccines if they want to stop the spread of the disease, which has killed 15,810 Michiganders and infected more than 615,000, according to state data.