ROCHESTER Downtown Rochester is well known for spreading holiday spirit with its popular Big, Bright Light Show, but this year, patrons will have a new winter experience to add to the magic.
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It may seem like Oakland Township officials are playing with fire this spring, but according to township Natural Areas Stewardship Manager Ben VanderWeide, the upcoming park blazes are quite intentional.
To help restore balance to the township’s natural areas, the township has been regularly burning its parklands since 2002. Those first burns, according to VanderWeide, were in prairie remnants on parks or trailway property along the Paint Creek Trail.
“A lot of our plant communities developed with fire, to the extent that a lot of them are fire dependent, so if we don’t burn regularly, we are actually going to lose that plant community and a lot of the special plants and animals that go along with it. That includes a lot of the pollinators that have been declining quite drastically in the last couple of decades,” VanderWeide explained.
As many teachers across Michigan prepare to head back to classrooms full of students, many are still waiting to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
On Jan. 11, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services officials announced the state was moving to a new phase of vaccination. Phase 1B which includes individuals 65 years and older, and frontline, essential workers in critical infrastructure, such as education, food and agriculture, utilities, law enforcement, firefighters, corrections officers, and transportation and grocery store workers.
Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan’s chief medical executive and chief deputy for health, said the state is pleased to move forward in the next stage of vaccinations.
Oakland County installs 10 freezers after FDA clears Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
Oakland County receives specialized freezers to store COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use.
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The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use Dec. 11, paving the way for an initial shipment of about 2.9 million doses of the vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. over the next week.
While not an FDA approval, the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine “holds the promise to alter the course of this pandemic in the United States,” according to Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research..