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Covid-19

Whitmer COVID lab test negative

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID-19 lab test came back negative Wednesday, a day after her husband tested positive for the coronavirus. The governor had tested negative with a rapid test Tuesday but was awaiting the results of the PCR test. In a video posted to social ...

Whitmer isolating for virus

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was isolating from her husband in their home Tuesday after he tested positive for COVID-19. The governor, who was not experiencing symptoms, had a negative rapid test and was awaiting the results of a PCR lab test out of an abundance of caution, ...

Biden urges concern as omicron rises

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden urged concern but not alarm Tuesday as the United States set records for daily reported COVID-19 cases and his administration struggled to ease concerns about testing shortages, school closures and other disruptions caused by the omicron variant. In ...

State: UP posts 696 new virus cases in five days

State data Monday indicated a surge of coronavirus activity in the Upper Peninsula in the past five days, with 696 new confirmed positives and 11 more deaths. The deaths included one in Iron County, along with 34 new virus cases, while the state posted 37 confirmed positives for Dickinson ...

Omicron upends return in US to schools, workplaces after holiday

Some school systems around the U.S. extended their holiday break Monday or switched back to online instruction because of the explosion in COVID-19 cases, while others pressed ahead with in-person classes amid a seemingly growing sense that Americans will have to learn to co-exist with the ...

Fauci: CDC eyes requiring negative test even with no symptoms

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus, the White House’s top medical adviser said ...