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Mandatory virus testing of teen athletes challenged in Michigan court David Eggert, Associated Press Tags: Parents file lawsuit demanding restart of high school sports LANSING – A high school sports advocacy group and some parents sued Michigan on Thursday, seeking to stop a new requirement that all teen athletes be regularly tested for the coronavirus. The lawsuit, filed in the state Court of Claims, came on the eve of the mandate’s Friday effective date. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state health department announced the free, required rapid testing nearly two weeks ago as a way to help curb the spread of COVID-19 amid a climbing case rate that is now the country’s highest. ....
The MHSAA announced December 23 rd for Football, Volleyball, and Girls Swimming and Diving had to stop practices again to allow the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to properly instruct coaches and administrators how to properly administer the rapid antigen tests the student-athletes will be taking while preparing for competition to return. These three sports are the only sports to still have their postseason tournaments left to complete and were placed in a pilot program to use the tests. The MDHHS is helping distribute the tests at no costs to schools that were originally slated to go to senior and long-term living homes. Those homes are receiving the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines. ....
Majority of Michigan families with children have lost income during coronavirus crisis Updated Dec 21, 2020; Posted Dec 21, 2020 An unemployed worker looks at the State of Michigan unemployment site Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Detroit. As of mid-April, about 26 million Americans had filed unemployment claims in the first five weeks since governments began ordering people to stay home and some businesses to close as a precaution against spreading the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP Facebook Share A majority of Michigan children have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, in ways that range from living in a household that lost income, to moving to online classes, to parents experiencing mental-health issues. ....