MI ENVIRONMENT
Fast Five with Abigail Hendershott, new MPART executive director
Date: April 07, 2021
(Abigail Hendershott, new Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) executive director, joins MI Environment for this Fast Five edition. The MPART executive director oversees the State s coordinated effort to address the threat of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. The executive director serves as the chair of the MPART and coordinates closely with various federal and state agencies on PFAS initiatives.)
How long have you worked at EGLE? And what is your background?
I have a Bachelor of Science in resource development from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. I started working at the then DNR - now EGLE, as a student in 1989 for the Act 307 Section scoring sites of environmental contamination.
We aren t at the finish line : Biden warns Americans it s not yet time to return to normal as he brings forward vaccination eligibility for ALL American adults by two weeks
President Joe Biden warned Americans that we aren t at the finish line when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and he reminded people to remain cautious We aren t at the finish line. We still have a lot of work to do, he said We re not even half way through vaccinating 300 million Americans. This is going to take time, he said. Now is not the time to celebrate
Biden issued his warning as he announced he will move up the vaccination eligibility by two weeks so all American adults can get inoculated by April 19
Dr Fauci says US vaccination campaign WILL prevent fourth wave as Biden brings forward everyone s jab by two weeks
Dr Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday he is confident the mass vaccinations campaign in the U.S. with a prevent a fourth wave of coronavirus cases
U.S. deaths remain low with 607 reported on Monday and a seven-day rolling average of about 783, the lowest figure recorded since October 28
Meanwhile, new coronavirus cases in the U.S. rose for the third straight week, increasing by 5% to a weekly total of more than 450,000
On Monday, 79,075 infections were recorded - the fourth time in the last two weeks that daily cases have nearly hit or surpassed 80,000
Three out of 1.8 million fully vaccinated people in Michigan DIED after contracting COVID-19 and 246 people still caught the virus after getting their shots
At least 246 people in Michigan, who were fully immunized with the COVID-19 vaccine, have tested positive for coronavirus
Health officials say 11 of the so-called breakthrough cases were hospitalized and three people died
No identifying information was available for the three deaths except that they were aged 65 or older
Pfizer-BioNTech. Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are 72% to 95% effective, meaning 5% to 28% of all fully vaccinated people will fall ill
So far, about 2.95 million residents have received at least one dose and 1.8 million Michiganders are fully vaccinated
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