In every Detroit neighborhood, there is a church and there is a school.
Those two anchors of the community united Thursday in a campaign to bring more students and teachers back into classrooms at Detroit Public Schools Community District this fall and to encourage everyone to put fear aside and get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Inside the Liberty Temple Baptist Church in Detroit, faith leadership and education officials issued a call to action to the Detroit community to bring their children back to school for in-person learning and to urge teachers to get vaccinated and return to face-to-face teaching after a school year full of disruptions and mostly online learning.
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Michigan health leaders have no idea how many state residents received a vaccine in another state. But it does count the number of vaccines administered to people who don t live in Michigan. While we do not have confirmation of vaccinations for some people who are vaccinated out of state, we believe the benchmark percentages are a reasonable way to determine when we are able to return to more normal levels of activity, said Bob Wheaton, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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