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This continuously updated post includes details of Michigan's COVID-19 vaccine distribution, who's getting it, along with new case rates including maps and daily state curve data.
One week after Gov. Whitmer tied lifting remaining restrictions to the benchmark, new modeling shows the state is months away from the milestone — which could amp up pressure to change paths quicker.
Vaccinating Michigan teens and young adults will be key to lifting pandemic limits and reaching herd immunity. Health officials are scrambling to make COVID vaccines available to high school students, who are getting shots at far lower rates.
State Republicans pushed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for months to set metrics for relaxing pandemic restrictions. The governor did so Thursday, tying the loosening of pandemic rules to state vaccination rates. Republicans don’t like that metric.
Starting this summer, eligible families are expected to get monthly payments, through expansions in child tax credits, to support the cost of raising kids.
The study, released after the CDC relaxed new guidelines for vaccinated people, is a reminder for Michiganders that your immunity against the virus isn’t fully realized until at least two weeks after the second dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Robert Gordon, former director of the Michigan health department, testified Thursday that he believes taxpayers got a good deal for his services, even with his $155,000 severance.
Whitmer, who has faced criticism from Republicans and business groups for not linking COVID restrictions to identified metrics, changed that approach. Her new plan offers economic and social incentives for residents to get vaccinated.
There’s no limit to how often ‘good neighbors’ can be paid to bring in Detroiters for vaccines. Mayor Mike Duggan said the payments are worth it to boost the city’s woeful vaccination rates.
House lawmakers want the Democratic governor to rescind a recent order requiring those as young as 2 to wear masks before they approve money that could transform child care.
Michiganders can feel safer gathering in small groups, traveling, and skipping quarantine with some exceptions, under new federal guidance issued Tuesday. Michigan appears poised to soon ease state mask rules.
Companies serving the state’s most vulnerable are struggling to keep workers. Losing the supplemental $2.25 per hour in pandemic pay would create a crisis.
Michigan schools must offer the annual standardized test, but, because of the pandemic, not all students have to take it. That could make the results less useful than normal.
Republicans in Michigan are joining conservative colleagues across the country in a race to pre-emptively ban COVID-19 “vaccine passports,” citing concerns over privacy and personal liberty amid a mass inoculation effort.
More people are getting vaccines and hospitalizations and deaths are dropping, but scientists are keeping a close eye on new coronavirus variants detected in Michigan.
