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Sparrow Health System’s chief clinical officer is urging people to get vaccinated for both the flu and COVID.
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A ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court this week will not affect Michigan State University’s COVID-19 vaccine requirements.Thursday’s 6-3 ruling found the Biden administration does not have the authority to require workers at large businesses with more than 100 employees to either get vaccinated against COVID, or test regularly.
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An 8-year-old Ann Arbor boy is among the first children between the ages of 5 and 11 in Michigan to get vaccinated.
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The U.S. reopens its northern and southern land borders to non-essential, fully vaccinated travelers beginning on Monday.
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Mid-Michigan appointments are filling up as hundreds of parents and guardians rush to schedule COVID-19 vaccinations for their children.
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The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a COVID vaccine for children 5- to 11- years old. The CDC still has to sign off on the pediatric Pfizer vaccine which could happen early next week. Michigan has already been allocated 287 thousand doses.The concern now is getting enough kids vaccinated. Approval for vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds came in May. Less than half that age group in the state have been vaccinated.
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The Michigan Chamber of Commerce wants the Biden administration to rethink a proposed COVID vaccination mandate, but the regulation could be finalized in the coming weeks.
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In the past week, the number of COVID-19 cases across Michigan have increased 37 percent.
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Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health provided a COVID-19 update Wednesday. Systemwide, it’s caring for 112 COVID-19 patients; 92 are unvaccinated, 20 vaccinated. Thirty-one of the total COVID hospitalizations are in the Intensive Care Unit. Of those, 25 are unvaccinated and six are vaccinated. Twenty of those ICU patients are on ventilators with 16 unvaccinated and four vaccinated.
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Businesses could not require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and also could not require unvaccinated people to wear protective masks under a bill that was up for a hearing Thursday before a state House committee.