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The Michigan State Medical Society says it’s time for people to return to masking up indoors. The reason is the rapid spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant.
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In the past week, the number of COVID-19 cases across Michigan have increased 37 percent.
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Over a thousand angry parents attended the Kent County Board of Commissioners meeting Thursday to voice their disapproval of the recent public school mask mandate.
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GOP Lawmakers in Kent County are responding to the Administrative Health Officer’s mandating masks in Pre-Kindergarten through 6th-grade classrooms.
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Kent and Ottawa County Pre-K through 6th-grade students returning to the classroom for the start of the new school year will be required to wear a face covering in educational settings.
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Allegan County has joined Genesee and Kalamazoo counties in mandating masks for schoolchildren who are too young to receive a coronavirus vaccine.
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An organization of Michigan’s top school administrators is urging health officials to partner with school districts in decisions related to requiring masks in schools.When it comes to mandating masks, the Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators, or MASA, says school districts and health departments need to act as partners in discussing and making decisions.
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services now strongly recommends universal masking in schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but the department stopped short of mandating that.
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The state’s workplace safety agency is urging businesses to adopt the CDC’s new mask recommendations to help stave off the spread of new COVID-19 variants. But the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration is not issuing an order to require it.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she’s not about to issue new health orders based on guidance from the CDC.