State data Monday showed 285 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Friday, including 31 cases in Dickinson County and 29 in Menominee County. Across the border in Wisconsin, Marinette County had 37 more confirmed positives for the three-day period. The Michigan ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan’s chief medical executive and a key adviser to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during the coronavirus pandemic, is leaving state government for a new job in the private sector. She will be replaced at least temporarily by Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they’re confident there will be enough for both qualified older Americans seeking booster shots and the young children for whom initial vaccines are expected to be approved in the not-too-distant future. The spike in demand — expected following last week’s federal recommendation on booster shots — would be the first significant jump in months. More than 70 million Americans remain unvaccinated despite the enticement of lottery prizes, free food or gifts and ...
The U.S. launched a campaign to offer boosters of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to millions of Americans on Friday even as federal health officials stressed the real problem remains getting first shots to the unvaccinated. “We will not boost our way out of this pandemic,” warned Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — even though she took the rare step of overruling the advice of her own expert panel to make more people eligible for the booster. Th e v a s t ma j o r i t y o f COVID-19 cases and ...
KINGSFORD/IRON RIVER — Local health officials Friday lifted the indoor mask order for kindergarten through sixth-grade students while in a school-related setting, saying the 2022 state budget bill contains language that could put department funding at risk if the mandate remained in ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office said Friday she will declare unenforceable a Republican-written budget provision that seeks to ban indoor mask requirements for children. The Democrat had been expected to block the language as unconstitutional since $55 billion in spending was unveiled and quickly passed by Michigan’s Legislature earlier this week. Spokesman Bobby Leddy confirmed next week’s move in a statement, calling the proposed restriction “dangerous.” “Gov. Whitmer has always said that she would protect public health measures that save lives ...
