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Sep 14, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
MORE: The quarantine was mandated by an emergency order (Ingham 2020-18) issued by Ingham County Health Officer Linda S. Vail this afternoon. The quarantined properties include 23 fraternity and sorority house and seven large rental houses.(more) The health department says it will continuously monitor the situation, and if additional properties are identified with cases or exposures, those houses will also be placed under quarantine. (More)
Aug 25, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
@GovWhitmer begins #COVID19 update with plea for Michiganders to get their flu shot this season, to lessen risk and provide less stress on first responders dealing with Covid. Note: @WHO says new flu season that starts in Southern Hemisphere has been nearly non-existent. (More) Image “Globally, influenza activity was reported at lower levels than expected for this time of the year. In the temperate zones of the southern hemisphere, the influenza season has not commenced...”
Jun 29, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
#COVID19 Update: @InghamHealth issues emergency order reducing restaurant capacity to 50 percent or no more than 75 people, whichever is less. The order directly relates to the outbreak tied to Harper’s Brewpub in East Lansing, which has now grown to 107 cases.
(Thread)@1320WILS Image The case count includes 95 primary cases (people who went to Harper’s during the exposure period) and 12 secondary cases (people who were in contact with a primary case but did not go to Harper’s themselves). Of the primary cases, 59 are residents of Ingham County. (More)
Jun 24, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
I requested interview with longtime chair of Lansing Board of Police Commissioners, Drew Macon, ahead of today's planned Zoom mtg of Police Chief/Board over Use of Force by LPD. Macon, a former LPD officer, told me he was no longer a board member. (more) @1320WILS ImageImage That was new, and apparently took some in City Hall off guard as they reserved comment, telling me this was the first they had heard of it. Today, it's official. Statement to follow below from Macon and Mayor. It's assumed the Zoom meeting is still going to happen. (more)
Jun 23, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
#COVID19 Update: THREAD—More on the East Lansing Harper's outbreak from @InghamHealth officer @lindavail:
"We're engaged in contact tracing now. But only for the 12 cases involving Ingham Co. residents. (more) @1320WILS Image "There's also asymptomatic mixed in," she added, "and that makes date of exposure harder to pinpoint."

Vail also made a plea to area restaurants and bars, especially the larger ones that have seen the bigger crowds since reopening (more)
Jun 16, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
Some details from @andyschor police reform plan include signing the 8cantwait pledge and
President Obama’s Mayoral Pledge;
*Initiate a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan,
*Engage a review of all police force policies
*Finalize Diversity/Inclusion officer with the city (more) Image *Build centralized transparency resource on website, covering Police policies, policing calls (85,000 per year + 20-30,000 interactions); The program budget breakdown;. crime statistics, the social service agencies funded and economic mobility work in our neighborhoods (more)
May 31, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read
Lansing First Ward councilman @Bbetz1990 changed his FB profile Friday, and the words “pro-riot, anti-police” caught my eye. I asked him to clarify, and was he in favor of these same incidents happening with violence and destruction in Lansing? (More) Image 2) “Hi Dave ... I do not think that a protest over Floyd's death would be particularly effective in Lansing. However, an innocent Black person could die in Lansing and we could be faced with the same choices because our city has so far been unwilling to reform our police system.”
May 28, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
@COVID19 Update: @MIRisingAction not pleased with state response to contact tracing, not with original (now aborted) deal with Dem affiliated vendor, or today's statement by @MichiganHHS Dr. Khaldun, when she stated 500 tracers will be ready to go by the end of this week (more) Image The advocacy group tweets back to press release from MDHHS May 9 that indicted 3,500 contact tracers had already "completed" training and are "ready to begin."
I checked with the spox for the department, Lynn Sutfin and wondered why the # of tracers and timeline changed? (more)
May 7, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
The ball that bounced off the shelf before my segment with Tony Willis @purelansing. Most famous sig is likely Clay Hopper, Jackie Robinson first non-segregated ball manager in Montreal. The fun we have from Studio B of the Morning Wake Up Image Further digression on this ball and the name. Hopper was a Mississippian, as racist as any in 1946. He begged Branch Rickey to send Robinson elsewhere. Rickey would not. Hopper's mindset changed completely that season and he grew to greatly respect Jackie. Redemption and grace. Image
Apr 28, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
#COVID19 Update: @InghamHealth @lindavail confirms virus outbreak at @Herbrucks near Ionia, large scale commercial poultry operation with about 1,000 employees. Some Ingham Co. refugee residents impacted. Ingham working with Ionia officials to assess and mitigate @1320WILS (more) Image 2) "It's important to know that for us, an outbreak is anything over one case." -Linda Vail.

No word yet on whether that farm will be closed or how many workers there have tested positive or been exposed to the coronavirus.
Apr 24, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
#COVID19 Update: Could number of Ingham County residents who are "seropositive" (had virus at some point but never detected) actually dwarf number of know cases to date? We asked @InghamHealth Officer @lindavail today, based on new Miami study linked here. hrld.us/2Y1QYIp “I have no question that if we could do wide scale testing for antibodies that we would find many more people in Ingham county who have had the virus or … have it and are asymptomatic, which would increase our total number of cases dramatically," said Vail. (more)
Apr 22, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: New @FoxNews poll Michigan; Job Approval:
Approve Disapprove
Gretchen Whitmer 63% 35%
Donald Trump 47% 51%
April 18-21 MI Reg Voters+/- 3.5
Full story fxn.ws/3atW5Ut Image MORE/
Fox News Poll
MICHIGAN
Choice For President If Voting Now

Joe Biden 49%
Donald Trump 41%
April 18-21, 2020
Michigan Registered Voters ± 3.5% Pts.
Apr 17, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Zoom call with @InghamHealth @lindavail and Lansing Mayor @andyschor. Discussion about virus locally and also new city directives aimed at next anti-shutdown protest planned for #MiLeg session April 30
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Thread: ImageImage 2) Mayor Schor says it’s impossible to have all LPD forces close to the Capitol and still police the rest of the city. Will be asking for assistance from other adjacent jurisdictions so there will be more police presence next time if needed
Apr 14, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
#COVID19 Update: @InghamHealth Officer Linda Vail on volume of virus cases facing local hospitals—
"We have 25 hospitalized now in Ingham County, and 4 of them in ICU. We’re doing really well right now when it comes to taxing the capacity of our local health care system. (More). ImageImage 2) “As for using local hotels for virus patients? We made early plans for both isolation and quarantine treatment. The hotel plan was part of striving for a non-congregate setting, and we have moved a few people in, farily sporadically, and then have moved them out as well.
Apr 13, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
#COVID19 Update: State Rep. Karen Whitsett @KayLyme, appearing on @glennbeck show, says she will meet with WH @VP, discusses her treatment for virus with #hydroxychloriquine. She also had some choice words for @GovWhitmer Re: current situation in Detroit. @1320WILS
(Thread) 1) “To have to use your name as a state representative ... to get care, it sickens me, it disgusts me, it’s wrong. “