The Michigan Association of Local Public Health held a roundtable on Tuesday, assembling officials from all over the state to discuss achievements and challenges from the year.
talk about. and now that s the context when the governor pulls that political stunt of now trying to demonize the pharma companies that are making the mrna vaccines. two points i would add. i think there is a lot of fat teed and a lot of frustration from various aspects of it. i also think there s a lot of legitimate debate about a whole bunch of institutions and players. the cdc, the fda, the white house, local public health. and i think those go in many different directions about whether schools were opened too quickly or too late, or the bars were opened too quickly or too late, why the masking message was done well or done poorly. all of that. the one thing that seems ambiguous to me is the vaccine. unambiguous. in a complicated landscape. and for ron desantis to choose this has his attack on donald trump, what does it say to you about how prepared we will be if and when the next pandemic comes calling for us? well two things.
or any of those things that we talk about. and now that s the context when the governor pulls that political stunt of now trying to demonize the pharma companies that are making the mrna vaccines. two points i would add. i think there is a lot of fat teed and a lot of frustration from various aspects of it. i also think there s a lot of legitimate debate about a whole bunch of institutions and players. the cdc, the fda, the white house, local public health. and i think those go in many different directions about whether schools were opened too quickly or too late, or the bars were opened too quickly or too late, why the masking message was done well or done poorly. all of that. the one thing that seems ambiguous to me is the vaccine. unambiguous. in a complicated landscape.
More than a third of Michigan’s top county health officers resigned in the past year, many as the result of dealing with the pressures of the pandemic.
A Lansing bill would require inspection of septic systems when homes are sold. It’s meant to address worries that old systems are failing, leaking E. coli and other bacteria into waterways. The bill faces opposition from the real-estate industry.