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Houghton County continues to see a rise in COVID-19 diagnoses.
The latest update from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department shows 196 new confirmed positives and 116 new probable positives across the five-county region since the last report was posted a week ago.
113 of the confirmed positives and 68 of the probables were in Houghton County. Gogebic County had 43 new confirmed positives. Baraga County had 25, Ontonagon had eight, and Keweenaw County had seven.
406 recoveries were confirmed across the region. Five more of our neighbors died – two in Houghton County, two in Baraga County, and one in Gogebic County.
See the full report here.
With distribution of the first COVID-19 vaccine potentially beginning as early as next week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer yesterday confirmed who’ll get it first…
Will the vaccine be safe? Western U.P. Health Department Medical Director Dr. Bob Lorinser has been following the research…
You can hear Todd VanDyke’s full conversation with Lorinser on Sunday’s Copper Country Today program.
