MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University is delaying its return to in-person classes and changing its masking protocol for staff and students as COVID-19 cases rise in the region, NMU Interim President Dr. Kerri D. Schuiling announced in a letter to the campus community Sunday. Classes are ...
State and local governments will have greater flexibility to spend $350 billion of federal COVID-19 aid under new rules from President Joe Biden’s administration. The revised rules mean that most cities and counties will be free to spend their entire allotment on any government services without having to prove they lost revenue during the pandemic. The rules also allow spending on more types of construction and a wider range of high-speed internet projects, among other things. The final U.S. Treasury Department rules come nearly 10 months after Biden signed the massive $1.9 trillion ...
State data Friday showed 41 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and 14 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 Friday indicated 691 ...
Local data Thursday showed Dickinson County in the past eight days has added 111 new confirmed COVID-19 positives plus a death blamed on the virus, while Iron County had 69 more cases and two more deaths. Dickinson County also has had 101 probable coronavirus positives and Iron County nine ...
Afternoons with Grammy. Birthday parties. Meeting other toddlers at the park. Parents of children too young to be vaccinated are facing difficult choices as an omicron variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 cases makes every encounter seem risky. For Maine business owner Erin Connolly, the most wrenching decision involves Madeleine, her 3-year-old daughter, and Connolly's mother, who cares for the girl on the one day a week she isn’t in preschool. It’s a treasured time of making cookies, going to the library, or just hanging out. But the spirited little girl resists wearing a mask, and ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Exhausted health officials on Thursday again begged Wisconsin residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19, test for the disease if they've been exposed and stay home as omicron swamps state hospitals. The state Department of Health Services reported a staggering 11,574 cases on Thursday, shattering the old record of 10,288 cases set a day earlier. The Wisconsin Hospital Association reported 2,060 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Thursday, an increase of 345 patients in seven days. The association reported 475 patients were in intensive care. Just 4% ...
