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CDC: Many healthy Americans can take a break from masks

Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined the new set of measures for communities where COVID-19 is easing its ...

State: Only 11 new virus positives in Dickinson, 7 in Iron in past five days

State data Wednesday showed Dickinson County added 11 confirmed COVID-19 positives and Iron County seven new cases in the past five days. Each county also had another death blamed on the coronavirus, according to figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus ...

State: Only a dozen new virus cases in Dickinson, six in Iron

State data Friday showed Dickinson County added 12 confirmed COVID-19 positives and Iron County six new cases in the past two days. The dropoff in new coronavirus cases in the region continues, with the dozen new confirmed cases in Dickinson County down from 21 and 57 for the same two-day ...

DIDHD: 3 more virus deaths in Dickinson, even as cases slow

Local data Thursday showed that in the past week Dickinson County had 47 new confirmed COVID-19 positives, less than half what it saw the week before, but added three deaths attributed to the virus. Iron County has had 25 new coronavirus cases since the last report Feb. 10, according to ...

Bill limits powers to close businesses

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly passed a Republican-authored bill Thursday that limits government officials' ability to close select businesses in an emergency. The legislation would block any government official from declaring a business essential or nonessential. It also would mandate that any regulation on businesses imposed during an emergency would have to be applied to all businesses uniformly regardless of the type of business or the product or service it offers. The measure comes in response to an executive order Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration issued ...

State stops urging indoor masks in public

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration on Wednesday stopped recommending that masks be worn inside schools and other public places to curb COVID-19 in Michigan, pointing to a drop in cases and hospitalizations. The step by the state health department came days after ...