Michigan's COVID cases surge to alarming levels, but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rejects new mandates

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Data from state health officials shows Michigan has surpassed 100,000 active COVID-19 cases in the last week, the highest number since mid-November.

White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said at a news conference on Friday that the Biden administration has no plans to redirect vaccine doses from other states to ones like hard-hit Michigan, saying,"There are tens of millions of people across the country in each and every state and county who have not yet been vaccinated."

Regardless of its efforts to inoculate its residents, the state has seen its daily confirmed COVID cases dramatically rise by 415% since Feb. 19 among people 20 to 29 years old, according to Michigan Medicine, formerly known as the University of Michigan Health System. The state recently announced it is teaming up with 26 colleges and universities in an effort to vaccinate students before they head home for summer break. On Thursday, the state said nearly 16,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses are being shipped to the health departments of those colleges and universities to administer.

 

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Too bad the PCR test is a scam.

Right. First she was a terrible governor destroying the economy by shutting the state down, and people plotted to kidnap and kill her. Now she's a terrible governor because she isn't shutting it down. The lady can't win. I don't blame her if she's leaving us to sink or swim.

Good grief, what is driving those numbers?

Masks work, obviously

Well, the Republicans over rode her decisions on masks and closings, they have no plan. Whittier tried and lost her power. No plan except to interfere, go for it.

The new variants are a bitch. Get the vax asap.

Just get a damn vaccine they are readily available.

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