WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer asked U.S. regulators Tuesday to authorize its experimental pill for COVID-19, setting the stage for a likely launch this winter of a promising treatment that can be taken at home. The company’s filing comes as new infections are rising once again in the United ...
State data Monday showed 459 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Friday, including 34 more cases in Dickinson County and 16 in Iron County. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Monday indicated 106 new confirmed ...
Iron County in the past week recorded 54 new confirmed COVID-19 positives along with three more deaths blamed on the coronavirus, while Dickinson County added 52 cases, local data showed Friday. Dickinson County also has had 88 probable coronavirus cases since Nov. 4 and Iron County eight ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday vetoed a bill that would prohibit Michigan’s workplace safety agency from fining employers for first-time violations of COVID-19 rules and require reimbursements if they violated her 2020 executive orders that were later declared unconstitutional. The Democratic governor said the Republican-sponsored legislation would cause the state, which enforces workplace safety rules, to fall below minimum standards required by federal law. “That would have disastrous consequences for our state,” she wrote in a letter to lawmakers. ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Madison Catholic Diocese has instructed its 102 parishes not to host coronavirus vaccination clinics in their schools and churches. The diocese directive follows federal action which recently made children ages 5 to 11 eligible for the pediatric vaccine. Diocese spokesperson Brent King said the Diocese wants to maintain its "neutrality" on whether to get one of the vaccines approved for children and adults. All of the vaccines have been proven safe and effective at preventing a virus that's killed more than 750,000 Americans. "The Diocese has not and ...
NORWAY — It took a while, but the Norway-Vulcan Area Schools Board managed to reach a compromise Wednesday on two key provisions of the district’s COVID-19 policy, including lifting a mask mandate for elementary students after the Thanksgiving holiday break. The two unanimous votes ...
