State data Wednesday showed no new confirmed or probable COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County in the past week, while Iron County had five new cases. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday added 105 confirmed positives to the Upper Peninsula’s ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs, officials said Wednesday. The notice came minutes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal judge in Florida earlier this week. A notice of appeal was filed in federal court in Tampa. The CDC said in a statement Wednesday it is its “continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor ...
DALLAS (AP) — A ruling by a federal judge has ended — at least for now — the requirement that people wear masks on planes and public transportation, and there is plenty of confusion about the new, post-mask world of travel. The decision by a lone judge in Florida toppled 14 months of government insistence that travelers wear masks to reduce transmission of COVID-19. Within hours, all major U.S. airlines and many airports announced — sometimes to passengers in the middle of flights — that travelers could take off their masks. WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE RULING? In a 59-page ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida struck down the national mask mandate covering airlines and other public transportation Monday, and the Biden administration said the rule would not be enforced while federal agencies decide how to respond to the judge’s order. The ...
Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline. One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s gonna grow,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the contagious omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population. But experts warn that the coming wave – caused by a mutant called BA.2 that’s thought to be about 30% more contagious – will ...
Local data Thursday reported two new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and one in Iron County in the past seven days. Iron County also recorded five people reclassified this week as recovered from the virus since the last local update April 7, while Dickinson County had one ...
