Livingston County reports first known case of COVID variant
More contagious COVID-19 variant B117, 2 potential exposure sites identified in Michigan county
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HOWELL, Mich. – A case of a more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been identified in Michigan’s Livingston County for the first time, officials report Saturday.
The Livingston County Health Department on Saturday announced that a resident has tested positive for the COVID-19 variant known as B117, which experts say is 50 percent more transmissible than the dominant virus strain in the U.S.
The health department identified two potential COVID exposure sites related to the variant case. Anyone who visited the following locations at the following times are asked to monitor for COVID symptoms, and to immediately isolate and get tested if symptoms occur:
March 8, 2021
A variant of the COVID-19 virus has been detected in Livingston County.
The Livingston County Health Department reports that it has identified the first case of the COVID-19 variant B117. According to a release, while public exposures are not normally a concern, they have issued an alert in this instance because the B117 variant is more easily transmitted and could lead to more cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
As a precaution, the Health Department recommends COVID-19 testing for anyone who attended the following locations:
⢠Michigan Institute of Athletics Gym on Euler Road in Genoa Township from February 13th to present (including friends and family members who spent time with individuals having visited this location).
It’s a ‘Drive By Fish Fry’ this year at St. Mary’s in Pinckney
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
The St. Mary Pinckney Fab 4 Fish Fry Team, from left to right: Scott Berry, Chef Amy Berry, Chef Cathy Phipps, Bob Phipps.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.
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PINCKNEY, MI - A local tradition for over 25 years, the Lenten fish fry dinners at St. Mary’s Catholic School and Parish in Pinckney have morphed into something a bit different this year. Still featuring their famous fish and sides, St. Mary’s has renamed them “Drive By Fish Fry” and have brought in a whole new crew of volunteers to run them.
March 2, 2021 By Mike Kruzman / news@whmi.com
Livingston County is considering waiving food license fees for restaurants and related service businesses this year.
Livingston County Health Department Director of Environmental Health, Matt Bolang, made the request to the countyâs General Government and Health and Human Services Committee, Monday. Food license fees are collected from about 437 establishments in the county. Fees for fixed establishments generally range between $627 - $1010, based on the size of the restaurant. Mobile unit fees are less. That comes out to around $335,000 annually that the county uses in conjunction with $137,000 from their Essential Local Public Funding Health Services contract funding to support food safety operations.
Livingston County officials call on state to stop using social factors to determine COVID vaccine distribution
Updated Feb 27, 2021;
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LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MI Livingston County commissioners claim the state of Michigan is distributing COVID-19 vaccines unfairly due to its use of social factors to determine allotment.
The state uses a Social Vulnerability Index, a metric from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to establish a community’s virus risk level based on health and economic factors. But Livingston County officials want the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to stop using this metric, and replace it with a “scientific medical factor based plan” that results in uniform distribution.