Bars and restaurants can reopen Feb. 1 with mask requirements, capacity limits and a curfew, @GovWhitmer says at Capitol news conference.
She didn't have details to share yet on what the limits will be or how late the curfew will be.
Ohio has a 10 p.m. curfew. for bar closures.
Under today's @MichiganHHS epidemic order, here's what the state is allowing to be open and what's not through the end of January. @crainsdetroit
"Indoor dining brings risks because it involves taking off masks," MDHHS Director @robertmgordon says.
Gordon on two more weeks of restaurants and bars being closed to dine-in service: "Now is not the time to let down our guard."
Tricia Foster, state's chief operating officer, said Whitmer administration planned for distributing 300,000 doses of COVID vaccine each week and vaccinate 50K per day.
Michigan is getting about 60,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine from the federal government each week, Foster said.
State of Michigan is currently averaging 74,000 shots per WEEK in the first 4 weeks of mass inoculations.
State's goal was to administer 50,000 shots per DAY.
INBOX: @GovWhitmer's announcement of extended bar/restaurant closure "is another display of the tone-deaf response we continue to hear from the Governor. Overreach by the Governor has crippled an entire industry and peripheral supply chain businesses," @SenMikeShirkey says.
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UP NEXT: Michigan Attorney General @dananessel and her Flint water investigation team led by Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy are holding a press conference on today's charges against ex-Gov. Rick Snyder and his former top aides.
Gov. Whitmer starts press conference by touting feds action yesterday to release more vaccine doses after she and other governors wrote a letter to @SecAzar pushing for it.
TAKE NOTE: Detroit @MayorMikeDuggan has made a decision to stick to Phase 1B and NOT skip to Phase 1C as @GovWhitmer has allowed for the rest of the state.
Here's his math:
1/3 of Detroiters who died from #COVID19 in 2020 were over age 75.
40,000 over 75 years old
100,000 65-74
Duggan said he understands Whitmer's decision to make vaccines available to 65 & up, but notes he, @MarkHackel, @CountyExecEvans & @davidwcoulter are getting the brunt of the calls.
"The point at which the 75-year-olds stop filling up the slots, 4 and 5 weeks out, we're gonna change it to 72-year-olds, and then we're gonna change it to 72-year-olds, and we're gonna change it to 70-year-olds, then 67-year-olds, then 65 —we're gonna keep bringing the age down"
➡️ @GovWhitmer just blocked another precedent-setting tax burden shift by the Michigan Legislature.
She vetoed $220M in general fund tax dollars lawmakers designated for the Unemployment Trust Fund, which is traditionally funded by a tax on employers.
HAPPENING NOW: @GovWhitmer holding a press conference to announce that COVID-19 case growth is declining and hospitalizations are stabilizing after limited business closures in mid-November.
Gov. Whitmer renewing call for Legislature to pass $100M state-based economic stimulus/aid for families and small businesses hit hardest by the pandemic and shutdowns ordered by her administration.
.@GovWhitmer also calls for Legislature to pass a mask mandate "until the majority of us have had this (COVID-19) vaccine."
That's a new nuanced position for the governor.
"I know there's bipartisan support for that action. I'd love to see the Legislature take action."
I got a little sidetracked yesterday with breaking news, phone interviews and Zoom meetings and apparently, according to some people, wasn't tweeting enough about Republicans not accepting the election results.