The second series of COVID-19 vaccinations will begin this week when Beaumont Hospital starts administering the COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of its health care workers, Fox 2 reports.

Vaccinating 1,600 people daily [with the ability to administer over 3,200 doses] Beaumont is encouraging its employees to receive the injection, according to the report. Yet, fears and concerns of the post-holiday surge still linger while skepticism of the vaccine treatment plan is still high among health care workers.

This comes on the heels of early this week with Michigan reporting its 500,000 positive cases of COVID-19. So far, more than 12,500 residents have also died from COVID-19.

“Beaumont is up to where it can vaccinate 3,200 people a day. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of people. The more people that get vaccinated, the better we’re going to be about keeping this under control,” said Matthew Sims, director of infectious disease research, in the article.

At Henry Ford Hospital, 13,728 doses have been administered, the article added.

As of this week, 99,040 doses of the 378,925 sent to Michigan have been given, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s among the lowest rates in the United States, according to the article.

From national critique regarding the country’s rollout of its vaccine to a number of health care workers not wanting to take the vaccine, it’s been a long, seemingly uphill journey with the shot. Skepticism also still remains in some parts of the Black community when it comes to being vaccinated due to numerous injustices at the hand of the government, including the Tuskegee experiment when Black men were treated like guinea pigs and were being tested on to see how untreated syphilis reacts in the body between the 1940s and 1970s. Also, surveys from late 2020 show that only a little more than half of Americans would be interested in receiving vaccinated.

The plan in Michigan is to have 70% of its adult population vaccinated by the fall, according to local officials.

“It’s a difficult message but there’s a lot of fear,” Sims said in the article. “While you want to vaccinate medical workers first, there’s a point where if frontline workers are not coming to get it, it’s time to move on.”

Around the spring is the projected timeline for when the vaccine will become available to people who aren’t working in health care.