The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First, the usual administrative matters like the theater announcements we use to receive, we are getting used to those, we follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeantatarms consulted with all the right people, we are seated 6 feet apart, that means no room for public or the media here but the media is participating and we hope the public is as well. And the videoconference is a real change for the United States senate and a very welcome one because it makes it possible to attract witnesses who have busy schedules on the same day such as today, by video conference, you may remove your masks since were 6 feet apart. The sergeant at arms, press gallery, architect of the capital, capital police, committee staff, Evan Griffiths for their hard work to keep us safe. We will each have an Opening Statement and we turn to our witnesses we thank for being with us today, each witness we ask you summarize
MDHHS partners with testing sites to provide COVID-19 vaccine
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Child Has Michigan s First Case of South African COVID Variant That May Resist Vaccines
On 3/9/21 at 4:55 AM EST
Scientists have identified the first known case of the B.1.351 COVID variant in Michigan amid concern the variant may be resistant to existing vaccines.
The B.1.351 variant was first identified in South Africa in October 2020. It was then found to have been carried to the U.S. in January 2021.
On March 8, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said the variant had been found in a male child living in Michigan s Jackson County, according to several reports.
Newsweek has contacted the department for comment.
Michigan to report racial demographics on vaccine dashboard Mansur Shaheen | Feb 25, 2021
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Michigan will begin to add the racial demographics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients to it’s vaccine dashboard this week. The move comes as a part of the state’s larger racial equity effort in handling the pandemic. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced the change on Tuesday.
According to data released by the MDHHS as of Feb. 22, more than 40% of Michiganders who had received the vaccine so far were white. No other group accounts for more than 4% of the recorded vaccine’s distributed, though racial data for 43% of distributed doses is unknown.