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5:19 pm UTC Dec. 24, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably changed life in Michigan killing thousands, disrupting everyone s lives, and harming or destroying businesses, big and small.
It began on March 10 when Michigan s first two coronavirus cases were confirmed. Within days, schools would close, office workers and others would begin transitioning to working from home, and on March 16, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer orders bars, restaurants, theaters, and casinos to close and restricts gatherings to less than 50 people forcing thousands into unemployment and businesses scrambling to stay afloat.
And in another week, as people began dying from the virus, the governor issued the stay-at-home order banning all public and private gatherings of any size outside of a family home.
COVID-19 vaccinations began in Holly on Sunday, Dec. 20 around 8:45 a.m. at the old fire department building.Â
EMS workers lined up in their cars and waited to pull into the garage and receive the first round of vaccinations. Holly Village Fire Chief Steve McGee was one of the first in line.Â
This began phase 1A of vaccinations in Oakland County, which come from Pfizer/BioNTech, for EMS workers in the county, including those from the Holly Village Fire Department. Oakland County Health Division public health nurses operated the station, checked people in and administered 118 doses on Sunday, said Bill Mullan, Oakland County communications officer.Â
Birmingham school board OKs plan to return to in-person learning Jan. 11
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BIRMINGHAM The Birmingham Public Schools Board of Education voted 4-3 to approve a timeline to return students to a hybrid in-person learning format beginning Jan. 11.
According to a presentation made to the board during its regularly scheduled meeting Dec. 15, the plan will be contingent on no further restrictions instituted by the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, and no drastic spikes in COVID-19 cases noted ahead of the return date. Data from the Oakland County Health Division will be reviewed on Wednesday, Jan. 6, to confirm those stipulations.
“Gloves!” a Wayne County Public Health Division employee says.
“Can somebody take my picture? I wanna picture of this,” her partner says excitedly.
An insert is lifted out of a large box. What looks like fog streams out.
“And there it is,” one employee says as she peers inside. “That’s the box.”
An employee pulls out and opens a smaller box, removing a tray of the most precious cargo health department officials in Michigan have ever handled.
Their first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Get a tray. We got two,” one of the employees says in a nearly two-minute video of employees unpacking the vaccine Thursday. “We’re all very excited.”