State data Friday showed 98 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and 60 in Iron County since Wednesday, as the Upper Peninsula added 1,211 new cases for the two-day period. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated ...
DETROIT (AP) — A court decision in favor of a northern Michigan restaurant could have dangerous consequences for confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, the state health department said in asking a judge to suspend the ruling or at least publicly clarify the impact. The department said it fears the Jan. 13 opinion will cause confusion and resistance toward its ongoing orders statewide, especially a new requirement that nursing homes offer booster shots to residents. Otsego County Judge Colin Hunter overturned a $5,000 fine against a Gaylord restaurant, Iron Pig Smokehouse, which had ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots. They are the first large U.S. studies to look at vaccine protection against omicron, health officials said. The papers echo previous research — including studies in Germany, South Africa and the U.K. — indicating available vaccines are less effective against omicron than earlier versions of the coronavirus, but also that boosters doses rev up virus-fighting antibodies to increase the chance of ...
Dickinson and Iron counties have had another week of high COVID-19 activity, with local data Thursday showing Dickinson County in the past seven days has added 286 new confirmed COVID-19 positives plus a death blamed on the virus, while Iron County had 140 more cases. This appears to be the ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s health director on Thursday ordered nursing homes to offer on-site booster shots to residents who are not up to date on the COVID-19 vaccine in a state that lags others in vaccinating people in long-term care facilities. The facilities must comply within ...
State data Wednesday showed 200 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County — along with a new death blamed on the virus — and 93 in Iron County since Friday, as the Upper Peninsula added 2,655 new cases for the five-day period. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and ...
