LANSING – Governor Gretchen Whitmer today set the state of Michigan on a pathway to return to normal by unveiling the ‘MI Vacc to Normal’ plan as the state continues to push toward its goal of vaccinating 70% of Michiganders ages 16 years or older. To facilitate this goal, the Michigan ...
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wants to ensure Michiganders don’t fall for fake advertisements or too-good-to-be-true treatments related to COVID-19. Her Consumer Alert covers a wide range of scams that are circulating right now. In her latest Consumer Protection video, ...
HANCOCK — Western Upper Peninsula Health Department (WUPHD) has started using a new software tool, Patient Education Genius (PEG) to help support COVID-19 case investigations and prioritization of disease outbreaks. When the health department receives notification of a person who tested ...
LANSING – A statewide COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program piloted in 2020 resulted in all 20 participating sites detecting the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples. The results hold promise for future efforts to detect and respond to outbreaks of the virus, according to data ...
LANSING — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is recommending vaccine providers across the state resume the use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine to vaccinate Michiganders age 18 and older. This recommendation is based on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the ...
ONTONAGON – Aspirus Health is offering COVID-19 vaccinations daily at Aspirus Ontonagon Clinic, 601 S. 7th Street, Ontonagon, MI 49953. The clinics offer the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine is the only COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in teens age 16 and 17. “These ...