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MARQUETTE The Marquette County Health Department announced on Thursday that through contact tracing it learned of a potential public COVID-19 exposure site at the Canale-Tonella Funeral Home.
The funeral home is located at 526 N. Third St. in Marquette.
MCHD recommends anyone who visited the funeral home from 3 to 7 p.m. Dec. 30 monitor themselves for COVID-19 symptoms and contact their medical providers if they become symptomatic.
Another community exposure occurred at St. Peter Cathedral, 311 W. Baraga Ave., Marquette. MCHD recommends anyone who visited the cathedral from 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 31 monitor themselves for symptoms and contact their medical providers if they become symptomatic.
MCHD identifies two possible COVID-19 exposure sites in Marquette
MARQUETTE The Marquette County Health Department has become aware of possible COVID–19 exposure sites in Marquette.
If you were at Canale Tonella Funeral Home December 30th from 3–7 p.m. or St. Peter’s Cathedral December 31st from 1–3 p.m., the MCHD is advising you to monitor yourself for COVID–like symptoms.
Be sure to contact your medical provider if you become symptomatic.
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MARQUETTE The Marquette County Health Department has provided rollout phases and estimated starting times for the COVID-19 vaccination process in the Upper Peninsula.
The MCHD said vaccine has been distributed to many provider organizations across Michigan, and continues to be distributed and received. It encourages people age 16 and older to get vaccinated.
However, because of limited supply, vaccine distribution must follow strict guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the MIchigan Department of Health and Human Services to ensure people with the highest critical need are vaccinated first.
Dr. Bob Lorinser, medical director of the Marquette County Health Department, Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and Public Health, Delta & Menominee Counties, said questions about vaccine allocations abound statewide and nationwide.
Dec 23, 2020
We urge our readers, friends and relatives in the region and elsewhere who are thinking of traveling this Christmas to bear one thing in mind: We are not out of the COVID-19 woods yet, not by a long shot.
Yes, the vaccine is slowly being distributed and cases and deaths seem to be dropping, but in many ways, the coronavirus is more dangerous now than ever in many states.
Public health officials at agencies such as the Marquette County Health Department and beyond cautioned us all about large family gatherings for Thanksgiving. The surge of COVID-19 cases since then is evidence many people paid no heed to the warnings. Thankfully, that spike in cases wasn’t seen here in Upper Peninsula or the state of Michigan.