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Nearly a thousand health care workers in Ingham County are getting Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine every week.
Health Officer Linda Vail says so far, the state has provided her department with 975 doses of vaccine a week. They’re getting an extra dose out of some vials.
She says the staff and the schedule would allow for more. “We did ask for the double, 1,950 doses this week, and didn’t get it, Vail adds, but we will be asking again, and I’ve also made a few phone calls.”
Vail says the department is vaccinating 350 or more people per day, and could double or triple that if they had enough vaccine.
The Lansing School District is once again delaying the start of its in-person learning.
In a message Wednesday, the school district said it was pushing back the start of the SOAR program from March 29 to April 12 after spring break.
The LSD says this is due to COVID-19 metrics not meeting the district’s requirements.
Schools that were scheduled to start on either March 22, 29, or April 12 will all now begin on April 12.
All other schools will start on their scheduled dates, April 19 and 26.
- Karel Vega
4:21 p.m. Fri. 3/19/21
New state health orders will soon allow more people to attend live sports events, and will require teenaged athletes to be tested weekly for COVID-19.
A key House committee approved a series of bills Wednesday morning that provide billions in federal COVID-19 relief funds, but hold back billions more or offer the already appropriated money with strings attached.The move by the House Appropriations Committee underscores the ongoing political fight with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over billions of dollars intended to keep Michiganders healthy, fed and safe."Based on the votes in today’s House Appropriations Committee, I am deeply concerned