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MARQUETTE It’s business as usual, at least for the time being, for area school districts.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday recommended a two-week suspension of in-person high school classes, all youth sports and indoor restaurant dining as a result of the statewide surge in COVID-19 cases.
In an online message to parents and guardians in the school district, MAPS Superintendent Bill Saunders said he has decided to keep Marquette Senior High School open for face-to-face education and continue with athletic participation until data indicates this is unsafe.
Saunders indicated the announcement came with little warning and didn’t allow much time to communicate with families. However, he acknowledged consulting with area school superintendents, the MAPS Board of Education and the Marquette County Health Department.
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Northern Michigan University freshman Grace Mattson prepares to take a nasal swab to test for COVID-19 at the Northern Center during the Passport to Campus event in August. NMU plans to hold vaccine clinics for students on Tuesday and Wednesday. (Journal file photo)
MARQUETTE Northern Michigan University will receive an allocation of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, with clinics to start on Tuesday, the school announced Friday.
NMU’s Ada B. Vielmetti Health Center confirmed that it will be receiving the allotment, and because the vaccine requires a single dose, students will have the opportunity to get vaccinated before leaving campus at the end of the semester on May 1, officials said.
MARQUETTE, MI The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine will soon be arriving in the Upper Peninsula.
Doctor Robert Lorinser is medical director of the Marquette County Health Department. He says the new vaccine is 75-percent effective at preventing infection, but its effectiveness in preventing hospitalizations and deaths is far higher.
“So far, 100 percent. 100 percent after 28 days. No hospitalizations in a trial of 40,000 people.”
About 82,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are headed to Michigan. Lorinser says that will provide three good vaccination options.
“So as far as I’m concerned, if somebody asks me and I get asked almost daily which vaccine would you take? The first one that I was offered.”
Michigan adjusts how it allocates COVID-19 vaccines to communities
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
COVID-19 vaccination clinic opens at DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. The clinic, serving those who are eligible to receive the vaccine, opened as part of a partnership between the Kent County Health Department, Spectrum Health and Mercy Health Saint Mary s. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)Cory Morse | MLive.com
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Michigan is altering its process for determining how many COVID-19 vaccines to allocate across the state’s various communities.
The new system, which went into effect last week, uses a population-based approach, combined with a formula that evaluates social vulnerability in order to get vaccines to communities at the greatest risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes.