Mukkamala, who is past chair of the Michigan State Medical Society and also co-owns restaurants in downtown Flint, had questions of his own:
Who will enforce this? Will restaurant staffers be expected to ask patrons if they’ve gotten the shot?
"Scientifically it makes perfect sense," Mukkamala said of Whitmer's new order, which follows guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and reflects data showing vaccine recipients are much less likely to contract or get sick when they are exposed to the virus.
“When you look at the people that are ending up in the hospital now, it's 99 percent of them are people that have not been vaccinated.”