Posts tagged with "COVID-19"

Peters, others, call on postmaster general to restore on-time mail delivery U.S.A

Peters, others, call on postmaster general to restore on-time mail delivery

February 19th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is leading 33 of his colleagues to press the U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to take action on persistent mail delays and ask what he is doing to restore on-time mail delivery. Peters previously released a...
Michigan announces $52 million in relief for small businesses COMMUNITY

Michigan announces $52 million in relief for small businesses

February 18th, 20210 LANSING — The state of Michigan announced that $52.5 million will be given to nearly 6,000 small businesses across the state that have been hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Whitmer said the money will be coming from the Michigan Small Business Survival Grant Program. “The Michigan Small Business Survival Grant Program...
Beaumont updates visitation guidelines COMMUNITY

Beaumont updates visitation guidelines

February 15th, 20210 COMMUNITY - Beaumont Health Systems has updated their COVID-19 visitation guidelines effective Monday, Feb. 15 at 8 a.m. for all facilities in the system. Visitation will now be permitted for patients who do not have or are not suspected of having COVID-19. Beaumont Health Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant said that having visitors...
Dearborn to offer small business grants COMMUNITY

Dearborn to offer small business grants

February 12th, 20210 DEARBORN — Small business owners in Dearborn who have struggled financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic can now apply for assistance from the city. The Small Business Grant (SBG) program allows Dearborn business owners to apply to have up to $15,000 worth of specific business expenses reimbursed. Payments for the recipients...
New options for COVID-19 vaccine sign-up in Michigan COMMUNITY

New options for COVID-19 vaccine sign-up in Michigan

February 12th, 20210 MICHIGAN - Residents who don’t have access to the internet or who struggle to use a computer can now call the Michigan COVID-19 Hotline at 888-535-6136, available Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., for up-to-date information about vaccine eligibility, safety information, and clinic locations Local health departments and hospitals...
Census bureau admits problems arose in 2020 count, but confident in data quality COMMUNITY

Census bureau admits problems arose in 2020 count, but confident in data quality

February 10th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Census Bureau Acting Director Dr. Ron Jarmin recently issued an update about last year’s census count. The update is on the quality of the data procured in the census count. “We cannot (analyze the quality of our data) in detail until we complete the Post-Enumeration Survey later this year,” he said...
Travelers could be fined $1,500 or more for violating mask order COMMUNITY

Travelers could be fined $1,500 or more for violating mask order

February 9th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says travelers who violate President Biden’s latest mask order for domestic and international travel could be charged $1,500 or more. The TSA recently made an update to its original bulletin regarding Biden’s executive order on promoting COVID-19 safety in...
Crestwood Schools announces tentative back to classroom plan COMMUNITY

Crestwood Schools announces tentative back to classroom plan

February 6th, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — In a packet emailed to families, Crestwood Schools presented its tentative reintegration plan for bringing students back to the classroom. The letter attached to the packet signed by Superintendent Dr. Youssef Mosallam said that the district is committed to safety. “Since March of 2020, we as a community, a...
Whitmer announces contact winter sports to resume on Monday COMMUNITY

Whitmer announces contact winter sports to resume on Monday

February 4th, 20210 LANSING — With lawsuits ongoing and Republicans rejecting numerous appointments made by Governor Whitmer, contact winter sports have been approved to resume on Monday. Effective Feb. 8, contact sports can resume provided masks are worn during practices and competition. If masks cannot be worn, participants must be regularly...
DHS: Undocumented immigrants will not be targeted at vaccination sites COMMUNITY

DHS: Undocumented immigrants will not be targeted at vaccination sites

February 3rd, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said this week that federal COVID-19 vaccine sites will be off limits to enforcement actions, such as arrests for deportation. The department and its federal partners have vowed to keep the vaccine sites run by the federal government accessible to undocumented...
Detroit to begin vaccinating food service workers, janitors and security guards COMMUNITY

Detroit to begin vaccinating food service workers, janitors and security guards

February 2nd, 20210 DETROIT — Mayor Mike Duggan is expanding vaccination eligibility to food service employees, grocery store workers, janitors and security guards who live or work in the city. Regardless of age, any employee of these industries can call to schedule an appointment to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the TCF Center. “Food service...
Over 1 million vaccines administered in Michigan COMMUNITY

Over 1 million vaccines administered in Michigan

February 1st, 20210 MICHIGAN — The state of Michigan has now administered just over 1 million COVID-19 vaccines, though many eligible people are still waiting on their first shots, officials announced on Monday. The number makes the state seventh in the nation for vaccine distribution. Governor Whitmer announced Monday that she is again calling on...
Moderate U.S. Republican senators urge Biden to compromise on COVID-19 plan U.S.A

Moderate U.S. Republican senators urge Biden to compromise on COVID-19 plan

January 31st, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Sunday, a group of 10 moderate Republican U.S. senators urged Democratic President Biden to reconsider his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, saying they wanted a meeting to discuss a compromise that they said could win swift bipartisan support. In a letter to Biden, Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski...
Wayne County has received fewer doses than less-populated counties Health

Wayne County has received fewer doses than less-populated counties

January 31st, 20210 WAYNE COUNTY — Wayne County Executive Warren Evans met with state officials and Governor Whitmer’s staff to discuss a problem with equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Wayne County, one of the epicenters of the virus in the state, has been receiving fewer doses of the vaccines than less populous counties. County officials...
Community agency continues ramped-up food distribution efforts COMMUNITY

Community agency continues ramped-up food distribution efforts

January 29th, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — A community agency’s ramped-up efforts to bring much needed food and resources to those in need shows just how economically damaging the COVID-19 pandemic has been to Metro Detroit families. The Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency has partnered with Wayne County to fill in the gaps for county residents...
Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine is 66 percent effective globally Health

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine is 66 percent effective globally

January 29th, 20210 Johnson & Johnson said its single-dose vaccine was 72 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in the U.S., but a lower rate of 66 percent was observed globally in the large trial conducted across three continents and against multiple variants. In the trial of nearly 44,000 volunteers, the level of protection against moderate and...
Law clinic at U of M helps residents resolve unemployment claims COMMUNITY

Law clinic at U of M helps residents resolve unemployment claims

January 29th, 20210 ANN ARBOR — Despite being nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Michiganders are still struggling to receive their unemployment benefits. The University of Michigan’s Workers’ Rights Clinic has law students helping residents in solving their unemployment benefit issues. The clinic opened at the U of M Law...
Dingell, Tlaib lead 71 members of Congress to ban water shutoffs COMMUNITY

Dingell, Tlaib lead 71 members of Congress to ban water shutoffs

January 29th, 20210 WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) reintroduced the Emergency Water is a Human Right Act. The act would prohibit water shutoffs and ensure water affordability protections for low-income households during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
COVID-19: Vaccine efficacy and supply, new symptoms and reopening schools COMMUNITY

COVID-19: Vaccine efficacy and supply, new symptoms and reopening schools

January 28th, 20210 COMMUNITY — With cases of the mutated COVID-19 variant accelerating throughout the country, studies have shown that the Pfizer vaccine is effective. Nearly 20 cases of the mutated variant have been found in Michigan alone, but a laboratory study by Pfizer shows that the new variants of COVID-19 had only a small impact on the...
In locked-down Lebanon, protester killed in night of unrest COMMUNITY

In locked-down Lebanon, protester killed in night of unrest

January 28th, 20210 TRIPOLI — A man was killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli on Thursday in clashes between security forces and protesters angry over a strict lockdown that has cut off livelihoods in a collapsing economy. Omar Taybah, 30, was hit by a bullet overnight, according to a local hospital that treated him, a security source and...
Michigan GOP threatens aid for K-12 schools COMMUNITY

Michigan GOP threatens aid for K-12 schools

January 27th, 20210 LANSING — Michigan House Republicans proposed a $3.5 billion coronavirus recovery plan, but threatened to withhold billions to K-12 schools. The GOP would withhold the funds if Governor Whitmer doesn’t cede her administration’s power to prohibit in-person learning and sports to local health departments. Senate Republicans...
U.S. Senate aims to pass COVID-19 bill ahead of Trump trial U.S.A

U.S. Senate aims to pass COVID-19 bill ahead of Trump trial

January 25th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate is aiming to pass COVID-19 relief legislation before former President Trump’s impeachment trial begins in early February, a lawmaker said on Monday, amid growing signs of agreement on the need to speed vaccine distribution. A day after some Republicans pushed back on the size of President...
State monitoring COVID-19 variant, restaurants to reopen on schedule COMMUNITY

State monitoring COVID-19 variant, restaurants to reopen on schedule

January 21st, 20210 LANSING — State health authorities are now on high alert after a new variant of the COVID-19 virus has been detected in three Washtenaw County women. The two adult women were in close contact with the first woman to be found positive for the variant, as announced on Jan. 16. The first woman had recently traveled to the U.K. All...
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