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Covid-19

US mandates vaccines for big companies

Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday. The new requirements are the Biden administration’s boldest move yet to ...

DIDHD: 46 more virus cases, two deaths in Dickinson

Dickinson County in the past week has recorded 46 new confirmed COVID-19 positives along with two more deaths attributed to virus, while Iron County added 39 cases and one death, local data showed Thursday. Dickinson County also has had 40 probable coronavirus cases since Oct. 28 and Iron ...

Clinics to offer COVID shots for kids

Area health officials Wednesday moved to set up for providing COVID-19 vaccinations for ages 5 to 11 after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s scaled-down version for younger children. The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department ...

State shows two more COVID deaths in Dickinson

State data Wednesday listed two more deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Dickinson County, along with adding 25 confirmed positives in the past two days. Iron County had 20 new confirmed cases since Monday, according to figures on Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus ...

Michigan health agency, doctors urge COVID vaccine for kids

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Top state health officials, pediatricians and vaccine advocates on Wednesday urged parents to get Michigan’s 825,000 children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated against COVID-19, as appointments began opening after the U.S. gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size ...

Panel urges kids 5-11 get COVID shots

An influential advisory panel on Tuesday recommended kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for all children ages 5 to 11, putting the U.S. on the brink of a major expansion of vaccinations. A final decision was expected within hours. The Food and Drug Administration already authorized ...