China's chief epidemiologist who helped drive anti-COVID-19 measures in the country that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes has died.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a food safety alert on Friday warning of an E. coli outbreak linked to ALDI frozen falafel.

"The Board’s decision to recommend masks for our students and staff was based solely on the CDC’s return-to-school guidelines, which is not a health mandate."

Local 4′s Dr. Frank McGeorge recalled his experience of getting the Pfizer vaccine recently and continued to offer suggestions Monday. Speaking about the experience with the COVID-19 vaccine McGeorge said:”The last time I was on air Thursday night I had received the vaccine about three hours before and I was feeling fine. Once a day for the first week you’ll get a daily reminder link that takes you to a page where you can report any symptoms. After the first week you’ll get a text once a week for five weeks. According to the CDC, as of 1 p.m. Sunday 556,208 doses of the vaccine had been administered.

In the statement WHO noted it appears to be rare that an asymptomatic person transmits the virus. In the truly asymptomatic, symptoms will never develop, and the only way to identify these people is by testing. Circling back to the WHO clarification issued Tuesday, its 16 percent estimate of asymptomatic spread appears to refer specifically to people who are truly asymptomatic. Notably the CDC, in its guidance for developing COVID-19 pandemic models used an estimate of 35 percent of asymptomatic spread and a study published on June 3 in the Annals of Internal Medicine analyzed 16 other reports of asymptomatic spread and estimated it to be as high as 40 to 45 percent, although they could not completely assess what percentage might have been presymptomatic spread. In terms of whether these differences in asymptomatic versus presymptomatic spread change anything right now the answer is simple.

Basketball games for Central Michigan University and Western Michigan University have been postponed due to their opponent’s coronavirus suspicion. Two students from Ohio’s Miami University recently came back from China and have been quarantined. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to test the two to see if they have the virus.