WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing ...
COVID-19 activity continues to spike in the area, with local data Thursday showing Dickinson County in the past seven days has added 228 new confirmed COVID-19 positives plus a death blamed on the virus, while Iron County had 89 more cases and one more death as well. Dickinson County also has had 192 probable coronavirus positives and Iron County five probables since the last Dickinson-Iron District Health Department report Jan. 6. In addition, Dickinson County had 87 people reclassified as recovered from the virus, while Iron County had 34 recoveries, the DIDHD listed in its Facebook ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration disputed the methodology and conclusions in a pending report that is expected to say there were thousands more coronavirus-related deaths tied to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in Michigan than reported by the ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin National Guard troops will help fill staffing shortages at skilled nursing facilities over the coming weeks in hopes of opening up more beds and relieving pressure on hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday. The governor said troops are being trained as certified nursing assistants. About 50 soldiers were deployed to six nursing homes during the past week. Another 80 soldiers who started training this week will deploy at the end of January. And a group of 80 soldiers will begin training in early February and ...
NORWAY — The Norway-Vulcan School District will shift elementary classes to remote learning today through at least Jan. 21 to counter a “dramatic spike” of COVID-19 cases among students and staff, officials announced Wednesday. For now, the high school and middle school, which have not seen the same surge, will stay with on-site instruction “as long as we are able to safely do so,” Superintendent Lou Steigerwald stated in an email to students, parents and staff Wednesday. The district hopes to resume in-person elementary classes Jan. 24. Students from early kindergarten ...
State data Wednesday showed 89 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and 36 in Iron County in the past two days, along with another death linked to the virus in each county. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday indicated ...
