Uncooperative Bay County hair stylist made tracking P.1 variant in Michigan even harder

[marmar]

(Detroit Free Press) The subject line on the email read: "Extremely Important -- P.1 Variant Identified in Bay County."

"This is the first of this variant identified in Michigan to date," read the message, dated March 31 and sent from Melanie Perry, an epidemiologist at the Michigan health department, to Bay County health officials.

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The first person in Michigan with a known case of it was a hair stylist from Bay County, according to a string of email messages obtained by the Free Press and the Documenting COVID-19 project at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University using the Freedom of Information Act.

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Within minutes of getting the email from Perry about the P.1 case, Mary Jo Braman, a communicable disease nurse for the Bay County Health Department, called the hair stylist.

The woman refused to cooperate. ..........(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2021/06/01/michigan-hair-stylist-covid-variant/5154599001/

[SoCalNative]

1. Time to start naming and shaming

those who refuse to cooperate fully.

[secondwind]

2. Reading the article made me sick. This new variant is out there,

and didn’t Gov Witmer just open up MI entirely, no restrictions??

Please, tell me I’m wrong! 😑

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Inside events are open to half capacity. Outdoor events are unlimited.

Those who are vaccinated probably have little to fear from this virus or variants: no death, no intubation.

The unvaccinated are taking their chances.

In a month, MI will fully open, indoors and out. Businesses will operate at full capacity.

There will be anti-vaxxers, and there will be others reluctant to get the shots. Some of them will be smart about it, staying away from crowds and keeping the mask on. The Governor is good, but she can't fix everything.