{"id":1032910,"date":"2021-11-19T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1032910"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:14:08","slug":"michigan-announces-indoor-mask-advisory-for-everyone-2-and-older-as-holidays-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-announces-indoor-mask-advisory-for-everyone-2-and-older-as-holidays-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Announces Indoor Mask Advisory for Everyone 2 and Older as Holidays Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-announces-indoor-mask-advisory-for-everyone-2-and-older-as-holidays-approach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1032910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1283861517-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced an indoor mask advisory for people two years old and older ahead of the holiday season, regardless of vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=580900203124803\">came<\/a> Friday morning via a virtual press conference that was shared live on Facebook by WXYZ.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cToday, we are issuing a public health advisory that recommends that everyone over the age of two should wear a face mask at indoor gatherings, regardless of their vaccination status,\u201d MDHHS Director Elizabeth Hertel said .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn addition, establishments should implement policies to ensure that people entering or seeking services, including employees are wearing masks,\u201d Hertel continued. \u201cThis face mask advisory takes effect immediately and remains in effect until further notice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Michigan leads the country in new positive cases of the Chinese coronavirus per 100,000 people over the past seven days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As of November 19, Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#cases_casesper100klast7days\">registered<\/a>&nbsp;589.3 cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Minnesota registered the second most at 524.3 cases per 100,000 people, while New Mexico is third with&nbsp;465.3 per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cThe increases in case counts, percent positivity and hospitalizations have us very concerned,\u201d Hertel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/news\/michigan-issues-face-mask-advisory-regardless-of-vaccinations-as-covid-19-surges\">stated<\/a> at the virtual press conference, per Fox 2.&nbsp;<\/span><span>\u201cWe are issuing the face mask advisory and are looking to Michiganders to do their part to help protect their friends, their families and their communities by wearing a mask in indoor settings and getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and flu as soon as possible if they have not already done so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hertel was asked if the MDHHS has plans for more substantial restrictions and advisories if cases continue to trend upward.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAfter Thanksgiving and throughout the holidays, we will continue to watch those case rates and other indicators very, very closely and make determinations as we see what transpires across the state,\u201d Hertel, in part, responded.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MDHHS also emphasized inoculation for children aged five through eleven as the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/cdc-advisory-panel-to-decide-on-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-for-kids-5-11\/\">greenlit<\/a> vaccine use in the age group earlier in November.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut vaccine uptake has not been as strong in our younger age groups as it has been in our older adults,\u201d said&nbsp;<\/span><span>MDHHS Chief Medical Executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian. \u201cWe now have a safe and effective vaccine approved for this over the age of five, and we continue to encourage everyone to receive a dose of vaccine as soon as possible if you haven\u2019t already.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced an indoor mask advisory for people two years old and older ahead of the holiday season, regardless of vaccination status. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}