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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is ending a mandate that likely would have been in place through summer. But policing who has a vaccine and who doesn’t will likely prove impossible.
‘We’re not going to ask for proof’: Michigan’s mask mandate change complicates things for businesses
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Tyler Rorah, 18, of Brooksville, receives a Moderna COVID 19 vaccine shot from LPN Sonie Woods, right, while receiving his CDC (issued) Covid 10 Vaccination Card during his vaccination appointment on Monday, April 5, 2021.Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP
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Vaccinated people no longer have to mask up indoors in Michigan starting this weekend – a move applauded by many state business leaders.
But the move also complicates the mask mandate which still remains in effect indoors for unvaccinated people and brings new questions about how the rule will be enforced. With the Legislature and business leaders speaking out against the idea of vaccine passports, it leaves the new rules subject to the honor system.
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LANSING, Mich. â Governor Gretchen Whitmer is touting her âVacc to Normalâ plan and challenging more Michiganders to get vaccinated with the promise to fully reopen the state in the coming months.
The plan ties state vaccination rates to the easing of COVID-related restrictions, with a planned full reopening two weeks after 70% of adults are vaccinated.
Two weeks after
55% of Michiganders have received at least their first dose, in-person work will again be allowed for all sectors of business.
Then, two weeks after
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Alabama
Montgomery: Vaccines for COVID-19 are now widely available, but some people remain hesitant to take the shots, State Health Officer Scott Harris said Friday. After months of struggling with getting an adequate supply into the state, Harris said health officials are now trying to battle some people’s reluctance to sign up for doses. While people can be reluctant to take the vaccine for a variety of reasons, one is the false belief that the vaccine is more dangerous than the coronavirus, he said. “If you can identify one single issue that is a problem, it’s that there are people who are just convinced that the vaccine is somehow more dangerous than the disease,” Harris told reporters. “That’s a false belief we have to try to combat as often as we can. It’s simply not true.” Nearly one-third of Alabama’s population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. However, that figure ranks the state third from last