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CENTRAL LAKE – President Joe Biden toured an orchard in northern Michigan on Saturday, the eve of the nation s 245th birthday, talking to workers and a crowd who d gathered in the fields of strawberries and raspberries across from rows of neatly planted cherry trees.
He hugged Jose Sebastian, an immigrant from Guatemala who has worked for three decades at King Orchards, a busy, 400-acre farm and U-pick hotspot about 35 miles northeast of Traverse City.
Sebastian and his wife, Maria Pascual, stopped picking cherries for a few minutes to talk with the president, who told them, We re a nation of immigrants, every one of us.
USA TODAY
Concern about the highly transmissible delta COVID-19 variant and its spread among the unvaccinated continues to grow as U.S. cases rise, but positive news about vaccines ability to fight the virus keeps coming.
Thursday, Johnson & Johnson said its one-dose shot protects against the delta variant, citing lab tests of vaccine recipients blood. And amid concerns their shot might require a booster, the company said its immune response lasts eight months and counting.
Public health experts say the variant poses the most danger in regions where vaccinations are sparse.
The variants “are able to find any gaps in our protection,” Dr. Hilary Babcock of Washington University at St. Louis said, pointing to how hospital beds and intensive care units in Missouri’s least-vaccinated southwestern counties suddenly are filling mostly with adults under 40 who never received the shots.
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Michiganders statewide are taking their shot to win big.
After the MI Shot to Win Sweepstakes was announced yesterday, more than 500,000 vaccinated Michigan residents have entered.
The lottery offers a chance to win more than 5 million dollars in cash, in addition to almost 500,000 in combined college scholarships.
Lottery–style raffles to incentivize vaccines are increasing in popularity around the nation, with the first coming from Ohio and republican Governor Mike DeWine.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer said, “If there’s one thing every Michigander can agree on, it’s what Ohio can do, Michigan can do it bigger and better.”
By The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea South Korea has reported 826 new cases of the coronavirus, its biggest daily jump in about six months, as fears grow about another huge wave of the virus in the greater capital area.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Friday that 633 of the cases came from the Seoul metropolitan area, home to half of the countryâs 51 million people, where officials pushed back an easing of social distancing measures as infections soared over the past week.
Dozens of infections were each reported in other major cities and regions, including Busan, Daejeon and South Chungcheong Province.