October 6th, 20210Michigan marked more than 10 million "primary series" doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.
The state has also administered more than 207,000 third doses to those who are immunocompromised and booster doses to eligible individuals. To date, 68.3 percent of Michiganders age 16-years-old or older have gotten at least their...
September 30th, 20210LANSING — Following FDA approval, recommendations from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and additional recommendations by the CDC director, the Michigan Department of Health and Humans Services (MDHHS) is urging certain Michiganders to get a booster shot if they received Pfizer’s COVID-19...
September 27th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden will receive a COVID-19 booster shot on Monday, the White House said days after his administration green-lighted a third shot of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine in certain populations.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week backed an additional dose of the Pfizer...
September 24th, 20210A group of more than 150 Chaldean doctors published a letter urging the state’s large Chaldean community to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus as soon as possible.
The letter appears on the state’s official website in both English and Arabic.
The group of medical specialist comes from various fields. The signees said...
September 22nd, 20210WAYNE COUNTY — As of Sept. 21, 70 percent of Wayne County residents, excluding Detroit, have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The 70 percent goal was set by President Biden and is seen by health officials as a crucial step toward getting a vast majority of residents vaccinated.
Wayne County is only the sixth...
September 15th, 20210DEARBORN — Due to a "perfect storm" of issues, Beaumont Health said all of its 10 emergency room departments are nearly full.
Some of the patients are COVID-related, but the overwhelming majority of patients have other medical conditions and concerns according to Beaumont.
Beaumont Health is also experiencing a blood shortage...
September 11th, 20210DEARBORN — A new study from Beaumont Health of COVID-19 patients across Southeast Michigan shows that vaccination prevents hospitalization and death.
After analyzing data for 11,834 COVID-19 patients treated at Beaumont emergency centers, researchers found that the hospitalization rate and emergency center visit rate was 96 percent...
September 8th, 20210LANSING — With more than 60 percent of students statewide covered by a mask mandate, new quarantine guidelines have been released.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has issued new quarantine guidance for both symptomatic and asymptomatic students.
“When layered prevention strategies such as masking,...
September 3rd, 20210MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — A report published by the CDC details a case of an unvaccinated teacher who infected half a class of students with COVID-19 just by reciting a story for them unmasked. The report made headlines this week as schools went through a tense decision process to allow full in-person learning, but with many...
September 2nd, 20210WASHTENAW COUNTY — Health officials in Washtenaw County have issued an emergency order requiring masks to be worn at all K-12 schools.
Under the new order, beginning on Sept. 7, students and staff at all K-12 public, private, vocational and charter schools within the county will be required to wear a face mask while indoors to help...
September 1st, 20210Adding to expert confidence over the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the CDC announced this week that its advisory committee on immunization has given the vaccine a "unanimous recommendation" for those ages 16 and up.
The committee’s 14-0 vote came a week after the FDA gave the Pfizer vaccine full approval.
The CDC's Advisory Committee...
August 31st, 20210LANSING — Michigan residents who have been receiving federal unemployment benefits will see all of those programs expire soon, but the state says it is still going to offer resources for those seeking employment.
The benefits provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and American Rescue Plan...
August 31st, 20210After the release of the FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, a civil rights group is asking the Biden administration to make federal assistance to local law enforcement agencies contingent on their reporting and compiling of hate crime data.
The FBI’s latest statistics on hate crimes show the biggest spike since 2008. The report...
August 31st, 20210DEARBORN — After a pause on activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a program for seniors is resuming its activities every Tuesday, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at the Islamic Center of America (ICA) in Dearborn.
The program provides social and educational activities at ICA to the area’s seniors, though the program is open to all,...
August 30th, 20210ADEN — Yemen received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) on Sunday, roughly 151,000 doses, the health ministry said.
The desperately poor country, where the health infrastructure has been devastated by six years of war, received 360,000 doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine in March through...
August 27th, 20210Wayne County has now joined neighboring Oakland County in mandating masks be worn in local school districts, schools and daycare providers.
The latest pandemic health order by the Wayne County Health Department takes effect immediately and requires students, faculty, staff and visitors to wear a face mask while in school and during...
August 27th, 20210DEARBORN HEIGHTS — At an Aug. 24 board meeting, the District 7 (D7) School Board of Education voted to require masks, just six days before school starts.
Interim Superintendent Dr. Mary Ann Cyr had previously told The Arab American News that the district would allow parents and staff to make their own decision regarding wearing...
August 26th, 20210DEARBORN — Beaumont Health has announced that it is opening up appointments for immunocompromised patients who want a third COVID-19 vaccine dose.
Beaumont is also encouraging patients who are moderately to severely immunocompromised and have received two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines to get a third dose.
The...
August 25th, 20210DEARBORN — Following recommendations from federal, state, and local health officials, Dearborn Public Schools has decided on an approach to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
With more than 20,000 students returning to full, in-person learning beginning Aug. 30, all students, staff and visitors will be required to wear face masks...
August 24th, 20210Waving summer goodbye is bittersweet, but the new school year is right around the corner and your schools are eager to welcome students back. You may find your family is already in back-to-school-mode, or maybe your children are trying to make summer last as long as possible. Either way, preparing for the school year can be simple.
As...
August 24th, 20210WAYNE COUNTY — The Wayne County Health Department has begun administering Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to immunocompromised residents.
Boosters are available at no cost to eligible residents at all Wayne County-sponsored vaccine sites.
Boosters for immunocompromised residents are another safe and effective...
August 23rd, 20210On Monday, the U.S. drug regulator granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine that had earned emergency-use authorization in December, making it the first to secure such U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) validation as health authorities struggle to win over vaccine skeptics.
The FDA approved the two-dose...
August 21st, 20210DEARBORN — The federal government is preparing to deliver "booster" shots of COVID-19 vaccines to Americans by mid-September, recommending that immunocompromised people take a booster even sooner.
Health officials have acknowledged that protection from vaccines wanes, or diminishes over time, though they still remain highly...
August 18th, 20210Top U.S. health officials said on Wednesday that the protection offered by current available vaccines against COVID-19 wanes over time, as federal agencies have begun preparing to offer booster shots to all eligible Americans beginning the week of Sept. 20.
The booster shots will have to be administered starting eight months after a...
August 14th, 20210DEARBORN — After having COVID-19 last year, Dearborn native Sam Ali and his family feared for his life and that fear led Ali to make some very big life changes.
The 43-year-old Ali said that he has tried many different diets and workout plans before, but none of them were successful.
Ali had tested positive for COVID-19 on July...
August 13th, 20210DEARBORN HEIGHTS — With the CDC changing its recommendations on mask mandates due to the rise of COVID-19 cases, local school districts discussed back-to-school options.
Dearborn Heights’ D7 School District has been one of the few districts in the area to have allowed parents to decide whether their children would learn virtually...
August 11th, 20210WASHINGTON D.C. — While nearly half of all Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the FDA is reportedly on the verge of administering booster doses.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the FDA is expecting to roll out its booster strategy by early September.
The Biden administration has been pushing for the...
August 11th, 20210LANSING — With COVID-19 cases spiking throughout the state from the Delta variant, the state says there are no plans on reinstating restrictions.
Since last weekend, the state is averaging just over 906 COVID-19 cases per day. On Wednesday, there were 31 cases of the Delta variant in Wayne County and 356 Delta cases...
