Genesee County is seeing a drop in cases and is vaccinating at about 10 percent of the population.

In looking at the infection rate from Genesee County in Michigan there is every reason President Biden should be proud. His leadership is having a profound impact on Americans and in this case African American people. I think they are listening.

February 12, 2021
By Ron Fonger                                               

Genesee County, MI - New cases of COVID-19 (click here) in the county dropped to an average of 15 per day this week and the county Health Department carried out a large-scale clinic Friday, Feb. 12, aimed at vaccinating 1,000 more teachers.

County Medical Health Officer Dr. Pamela Hackert said Wednesday, Feb. 10, that the drop in cases is important, in part because it equates to a lesser risk of contracting new variants of the virus.

“As long as our numbers are going down, the risk of exposure to (other variants) that are much more easy to transmit -- that is going to corelate with not having as much risk of exposure,” Hackert told the county Board of Commissioners.

The county Health Department continues to wait for more supply of vaccines from the state of Michigan, but the area’s vaccination rate has topped 10 percent of those 16 and older with 33,050 first doses given as of Wednesday. More than 50,000 county residents have pre-registered are are on a vaccination waiting list....

On a national level that is comparible. (click here) About 10.8 percent of the people have received one or more vaccines. About 4 percent have received two doses. There is a current population in the USA is about 331 million including children.

It looks like there will be a delay in holding preliminary hearings in the criminal charges of those responsible for poisoning the people of Flint.

February 12, 2021

By Ron Fonger

Flint - Seven (click here) of the nine individuals charged with criminal wrongdoing related to the Flint water crisis won’t have preliminary hearings until late June as the chief Genesee Circuit Court judge reviews grand jury transcripts and records related to their cases.

Chief Judge Duncan Beagle this week ordered grand jury records and transcripts from 45 witnesses in the cases to be delivered to him and set a June 14 review date to give him time to inspect and decide what records should be turned over for discovery in the cases....