The Marquette County Health Department said Tuesday that there is a “strong possibility” that the county is entering an “new and accelerated” wave of COVID-19 infections.
The department says it can confirm that there is now community spread of the U.K. B.1.1.7 variant of the virus, which spreads much more easily than the strain we’ve dealt with for more than a year now. Doctor Bob Lorinser, the county’s medical director, says that infection rates in Marquette County have increased by 151-percent from the previous average weekly case rate.
The good news is the current COVID-19 vaccines appear to work against this variant. There were large vaccination clinics held earlier this week at Northern Michigan University and at the Island Resort and Casino.
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