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Café Rosetta in Calumet is among seven businesses to receive a fine or license suspension from the state for offering indoor dining service. (Houghton Daily Mining Gazette photo by Garrett Neese)
CALUMET Cafe Rosetta is temporarily closed as the Calumet establishment works out a resolution with the state that would allow it to operate with a license after it was stripped for the restaurant’s flouting of COVID-19 restrictions.
Cafe Rosetta closed temporarily on Saturday, owner Amy Heikkinen said. On Thursday, Ingham County Judge Wanda Stokes ordered Cafe Rosetta to work with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) towards relicensing. If Cafe Rosetta did not comply with court orders, the court could potentially impose jail time.
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ESCANABA Each week, health departments and healthcare providers across the state request vaccine doses from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, but just because a health department has requested a certain amount doesn’t mean those doses are being delivered. Even in the U.P., there are major differences between counties in how many doses are being received.
The four hardest-hit counties for COVID-19 infections in the Upper Peninsula are, in order, Marquette, Delta, Dickinson, and Houghton, which are the same four counties that lead in vaccine distribution according to the state’s vaccine dashboard. However, the vaccine is not being distributed solely on the number of cases, as the order differs slightly with Marquette receiving 72,725 doses, Houghton receiving 12,500 doses, Dickinson County receiving 7,850 doses, and Delta receiving 7,650 doses based on information released by the state Tuesday.
Western Upper Peninsula Health Department
WESTERN U.P. The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department (WUPHD) reminds people that your second dose of COVID-19 vaccine must be the same brand as your first dose. Second doses of the Pfizer vaccine are given 21 days after the first dose and Moderna is given 28 days after the first dose. Current guidance from the Centers for Disease Control recommends that the second dose not be delayed more than 6 weeks (42 days) from the first dose for either vaccine.
WUPHD was allocated the Moderna brand and does not expect to receive a Pfizer allocation from the State of Michigan. If your first dose was the Pfizer brand, the WUPHD is unable to provide you with your second dose. You will need to wait until your first dose provider has enough Pfizer vaccine on hand to schedule a second dose clinic. The State is working on allocating additional Pfizer vaccine to our area within the next few weeks.
Feb 3, 2021
HANCOCK The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department has reported the vaccine supply coming to the area continues to be very limited at this time. The forecast from the state is that this pattern may continue for the next several weeks as the state wrestles with low shipments from the federal government and the need to make sure that vaccine is distributed equitably across the state.
“We have started administering second doses of the vaccine that were received from the state this week,” said Kate Beer, health officer for WUPHD. “Some first doses were received, but they have already been scheduled out as we continue to work through the Phase 1B priority groups.”