Posts tagged with "COVID-19"

Beaumont Health to require COVID-19 vaccines Health

Beaumont Health to require COVID-19 vaccines

July 28th, 20210 DEARBORN — Beaumont Health has announced that it will be requiring all employees who practice at a Beaumont facility to have their COVID-19 vaccine. The mandate will also apply to volunteers and providers. The announcement came after the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant among unvaccinated people.  We have...
Surgeon General: "People do not need to go out and get a booster shot" Health

Surgeon General: “People do not need to go out and get a booster shot”

July 28th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — As new data from Pfizer shows a "booster" shot of its COVID-19 vaccine provides strong protection against the highly-contagious Delta variant, federal officials reiterated that Americans don’t need one quite yet. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy told CNN on Wednesday that people "do not need to go out and...
U.S. CDC recommends vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in many cases Health

U.S. CDC recommends vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in many cases

July 27th, 20210 Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 should go back to wearing masks in indoor public places in regions where the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, U.S. health authorities said on Tuesday. In a toughening of guidance issued earlier this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommended all...
Masked haj pilgrims on Mount Arafat pray for COVID-free world COMMUNITY

Masked haj pilgrims on Mount Arafat pray for COVID-free world

July 22nd, 20210 MT. ARAFAT — Thousands of face-masked Muslims gathered on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Monday, praying for an end to the pandemic and faster vaccination as the annual haj pilgrimage reached its climax. Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, has barred worshippers from abroad for a second year running and...
Delta variant and vaccine hesitancy put COVID advances in jeopardy Health

Delta variant and vaccine hesitancy put COVID advances in jeopardy

July 22nd, 20210 The U.S. is now seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases, as the highly-contagious Delta variant driving infections among those unvaccinated across the country, especially in areas where vaccination rates remain relatively low. Johns Hopkins University tallies show the average number of daily COVID cases in the U.S. has gone up 66 percent...
Senate includes Child Tax Credit monthly payment extension in budget deal U.S.A

Senate includes Child Tax Credit monthly payment extension in budget deal

July 14th, 20210 Local leaders are encouraging working families to watch for advance monthly payments of the Child Tax Credit of up to $300 per month per child beginning Thursday, July 15 through December. The credit has been lauded by the Biden administration and Democrats as one of the key provisions to aid working class families, as part of the...
Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of vaccine as Delta variant spreads Health

Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of vaccine as Delta variant spreads

July 8th, 20210 The drugmaker Pfizer said on Thursday it will ask the U.S. government for the approval of a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine within the next month, as fears among experts grow around the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. The request with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is based on evidence of greater risk...
Delta variant spells danger for unvaccinated people, continues to alarm experts Health

Delta variant spells danger for unvaccinated people, continues to alarm experts

July 6th, 20210 With the more-infectious Delta variant emerging as the most common strain of the coronavirus, parts of the U.S. with the lowest vaccination rates are threatening to halt progress on the pandemic in the country. Southern states like Arkansas, Missouri and Alabama have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, according to...
J&J, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines show promise against the Delta variant Health

J&J, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines show promise against the Delta variant

July 2nd, 20210 Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Moderna recently announced promising results in studies to determine vaccine effectiveness against the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. First identified in India, Delta is becoming the globally dominant variant of the coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization. Johnson...
Unemployment offices open to appointments June 30; scheduling now open COMMUNITY

Unemployment offices open to appointments June 30; scheduling now open

June 25th, 20210 LANSING — The Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) is now offering in-person unemployment insurance services by appointment only at 12 local unemployment offices, beginning June 30. Michiganders can now go online to start scheduling appointments. Each appointment slot is 15 minutes and may be scheduled up to a week in advance....
Let’s talk about mental health in our community Letters to the Editor

Let’s talk about mental health in our community

June 20th, 20211 A letter to The Arab American News: Do you think our leaders in Dearborn have done enough to promote mental health within our community? Every single one of us know at least one person struggling with depression, anxiety or other types of mental health problems. Why is it that we as a community turn away from the one issue that is...
Back to normal: Michigan to lift capacity limits, mask requirements on June 22 Health

Back to normal: Michigan to lift capacity limits, mask requirements on June 22

June 17th, 20210 LANSING — on Thursday, Governor Whitmer announced an early end to all COVID-19 epidemic orders on gatherings and masking. Beginning June 22, capacity in both indoor and outdoor settings will increase to 100 percent and the state will no longer require residents to wear a face mask. Whitmer had originally announced a plan to lift...
Pharmacist jailed for three years for tampering with COVID-19 vaccines U.S.A

Pharmacist jailed for three years for tampering with COVID-19 vaccines

June 9th, 20211 Steven R. Brandenburg, 46, a Wisconsin pharmacist who pleaded guilty to trying to spoil hundreds of doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine because he was skeptical about them, has been jailed for three years, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Brandenburg was also ordered to pay about $83,800 in compensation to the hospital...
Fun summer programs at Hamtramck Public Schools combat learning loss Local

Fun summer programs at Hamtramck Public Schools combat learning loss

June 9th, 20210 The global pandemic caused significant disruptions in education across the country over the past two years. As a result, Hamtramck Public Schools is offering a robust summer education program to reduce learning loss in advance of the new school year in September. This modern summer program incorporates fun and innovative ways to support...
Michigan House passes measure to ban vaccine passports Health

Michigan House passes measure to ban vaccine passports

June 3rd, 20210 LANSING — The Republican-led Michigan House is trying to ban government-sanctioned vaccine passports, despite no current plan to enforce them. The COVID-19 Vaccination Privacy Act would ban any government entity from issuing a COVID-19 vaccine passport requiring proof of vaccination to access a public place or service, or imposing...
Rashida Tlaib to host virtual town hall with the IRS and FEMA Local

Rashida Tlaib to host virtual town hall with the IRS and FEMA

May 26th, 20210 LANSING — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) is inviting residents in the 13th District that she represents to a virtual town hall with special guests to help answer the community's questions. Joining Tlaib will be Liaison Kate Hunyady from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Region 5 External Affairs Specialist Dan Shulman and...
Moderna says COVID-19 vaccine protects children as young as 12 Health

Moderna says COVID-19 vaccine protects children as young as 12

May 26th, 20210 DEARBORN — Moderna has said that its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, making its vaccine the second option for that age group in the U.S. Moderna also said that it will submit its teen data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other global regulators early next month. In its research, Moderna...
One in two Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine Health

One in two Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

May 26th, 20210 Nearly one out of two Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday, while half the citizens above the age of 18 in the country have been fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency said 164,378,258 people, or 49.5 percent of the total U.S....
Community members discuss COVID-19 vaccines and return to normality COMMUNITY

Community members discuss COVID-19 vaccines and return to normality

May 22nd, 20210 DEARBORN — On Tuesday, May 18, community members attended a virtual town hall on COVID-19 vaccination held by ACCESS, the ACC, the Protect Michigan Commission, the MDHHS, Unity Community Family Services and The Arab American News.  Panel members included Evone Barkho, MD; Sawsan Jamil, MD; Farah Jalloul; Imad Obeid, MD; Madiha...
Hamtramck Public Schools to host free COVID-19 vaccine clinic Health

Hamtramck Public Schools to host free COVID-19 vaccine clinic

May 15th, 20210 HAMTRAMCK — Hamtramck Public Schools (HPS) is partnering with Rite Aid to provide vaccinations for individuals 12 and older at the Hamtramck Community Center at 11350 Charest St. this upcoming Thursday. HPS recommends families schedule an appointment to receive a COVID-19 shot. The clinic is offering the first dose of the Pfizer...
Vaccinations for Dearborn students available May 20 and 21 Health

Vaccinations for Dearborn students available May 20 and 21

May 14th, 20210 DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools is adding vaccination dates for students next week. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave the green light on usage of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for the 12-15-years-old age range this week. Michigan's health authority told providers late Wednesday that they can proceed...
CDC says fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear face masks in most settings Health

CDC says fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear face masks in most settings

May 13th, 20210 WASHINGTON D.C. - The CDC announced that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a face mask or stay six feet from others in most settings, indoors and outdoors. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walesky said that there are still a handful of instances where people will still need to wear masks including in a health-care setting or in...
Top scientists question the need for COVID-19 booster shots Health

Top scientists question the need for COVID-19 booster shots

May 13th, 20210 COVID-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots, or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus variants, but some scientists question when, or whether, such shots will be needed. In interviews with Reuters, more than a dozen influential infectious disease and vaccine...
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