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What the hell is going on in Michigan?

Sure...

But why only Michigan, or why so bad there?

If you’ve got a moment Yahoo posted a pretty good article about state level political reactions to Michigan’s notable surge. Goes through a few statistics, such as “...Michigan is home to nine of the 10 metro areas with the highest recent case rates.”

Since we’re checking trends by state, take a lock at Virginia. They went through a similar, albeit isolated rise in cases/deaths back in Feb/Mar.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigans-virus-cases-control-putting-152045172.html

Georgia has come WAY down and has flattened out around 1,000 per day new reported cases.  That is pretty good, relatively.  It's a battle between vaccinations and new infections and variants.  Everyone over 16 now can get vaccinated, or at least try and get an appt.

Government recommending pause of J&J vaccine due to blood clots in 6 women

Government recommending pause of J&J vaccine due to blood clots in 6 women

This isn't good, J&J was set to become the bulk of available vaccines over the coming months.

I'm signed up for Moderna #1 on Friday.

Glad I ended up with Moderna. About a day or two after my wife found me the appointment for the Moderna, she learned that she'd be able to get me J&J if I wanted it instead. I preferred Pfizer or Moderna, so because I already had an appt, I didn't want to do J&J. But if I was still in purgatory wondering when I'd be able to get the others, I would have done J&J in a heartbeat. 

So it all worked out.

Notably, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby has said the conference had “no jurisdiction” to mandate vaccines for collegiate athletics, and that appears to be the thinking most conferences will follow. Still, the advantages afforded to NBA players would seemingly carry over for athletes in other team sports as well.

“We haven’t gotten any direction on vaccinations yet,” Husker head coach Scott Frost said when asked on Monday. “I’ll wait on more advice from our leadership here at the university and our athletic department and from the Big Ten before I comment much.”

According to Chris Dunker’s reporting for the Lincoln Journal Star, the larger University of Nebraska-Lincoln will not mandate vaccines, only encourage them.

Frost feels the same will eventually be said of his team.

“This is just my opinion but the kids on our team should probably be last in line for something like that just because of how young and healthy they are,” he said.

“I assume at some point the vaccinations will be available for our guys. I don’t think I’m going to make them mandatory, I don’t think that’s right, but hopefully we’ll get an opportunity to get some of our guys vaccinated if they want to.”


https://hailvarsity.com/football/without-word-from-big-ten-frost-says-vaccines-are-voluntary-for-nebraska-football/