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CMU to require COVID tests for unvaccinated

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Central Michigan University will require all students, faculty and staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or participate in weekly COVID-19 testing for the fall semester, the university announced Thursday. Several other universities in Michigan have mandated COVID-19 vaccines in anticipation of the fall as concerns rise about the highly contagious delta variant. The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University announced over the summer that students, faculty and staff are required to provide proof of vaccination for the ...

State lists 104 new UP virus positives in 2-day span

State data Wednesday showed 104 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula in the past two days, with seven in Dickinson County and two in Iron County. Across the border, Wisconsin health officials reported 33 more confirmed cases in Marinette County since Monday. For the ...

Michigan’s top doctor told Whitmer school mask mandate would curb virus

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s top doctor said Wednesday she told Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state health director that reinstituting a mask requirement in K-12 schools would likely lessen the spread of COVID-19, but she added there are other factors at play. Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, ...

Evers directs $50M to Wisconsin farmers, agriculture

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday that he’s directing $50 million in federal coronavirus relief funding to Wisconsin’s farmers and the state’s agriculture industry. That is in addition to $50 million in federal funding that has already been distributed through the Wisconsin Farm Support Program. Applications for the latest round of funding will open later this year following the fall harvest, Evers’ administration said. Under the first round of payments, each recipient received up to a $3,500 payment. The new program, to be administered by the state ...

Wisconsin GOP senator, critic of mask mandates has COVID-19

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state Sen. André Jacques, one of the Wisconsin Legislature's most conservative lawmakers and a vocal opponent of mask and vaccine mandates, tested positive for COVID-19 last week and was at the hospital on Monday with pneumonia. The positive test and ...

Amid virus surge, Florida skeptics reconsider vaccines

CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) — In a rural stretch of northeastern Florida where barely half the people have gotten a coronavirus shot, Roger West had no problem telling others he was “adamantly anti-vaccination.” The co-owner of the Westside Journal weekly newspaper used his voice as a columnist to widely share his doubts about the vaccine and his mistrust of the health experts in the U.S. who have been urging everyone to get it. “I do not trust the Federal Government,” West wrote recently. “I do not trust Dr. Fauci, I do not trust the medical profession, nor the pharmaceutical ...