Local data Thursday showed Dickinson County has had 77 new confirmed COVID-19 positives and a virus-related death in the past seven days, while Iron County had three more deaths and 33 new coronavirus cases. Dickinson County also has had 46 probable coronavirus positives since Dec. 2 and ...
U.S. health authorities again expanded the nation's booster campaign Thursday, opening extra doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to several million 16- and 17-year-olds. The U.S. and many other nations already were urging adults to get booster shots to pump up immunity that can wane months after vaccination, calls that intensified with the discovery of the worrisome new omicron variant. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization for 16- and 17-year-olds to get a third dose of the vaccine made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech — once they're six ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s first case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has been identified in a Kent County resident, the state Department of Health and Human Services and Kent County Health Department said Thursday. The omicron variant was classified as one of concern by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Nov. 30. Variants of concern show evidence of being more contagious, causing more severe illness or resistance to diagnostics, treatments or vaccines. “We are concerned, although not surprised, about the discovery of the omicron variant in Michigan,” ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 reached 200 million Wednesday amid a dispiriting holiday-season spike in cases and hospitalizations that has hit even New England, one of the most highly inoculated corners of the country. New cases in the ...
State data Wednesday showed 22 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County in the past two days, while Iron County had 12 news cases and one more death blamed on the virus. Across the border in Wisconsin, state coronavirus numbers had 104 new confirmed cases in Marinette County ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s COVID-19 hospitalizations reached a new high Wednesday, exceeding the previous record for the fifth straight time that the state has reported data. Nearly 4,700 patients were in the hospital statewide during a fourth surge in infections. The roughly 4,400 hospitalized adults with confirmed cases, most of them unvaccinated, were the highest number in the 21-month coronavirus pandemic and 150 more than a week ago. The state health department reports the total three times a week. Michigan recorded 351 additional deaths, including 166 in the most ...
