Michigan’s top health director revealed the two “core, science-based ideas” experts are using to decide what should be allowed to reopen and what should remain closed due to COVID-19 in the state. Gretchen Whitmer and MDHHS Chief Medical Executive Dr. Joneigh Khaldun on Friday to announce an updated COVID-19 order that reopened some venues but extended restrictions on others. As part of the new order, certain entertainment venues that had been closed for the last month can reopen with limited capacity. Restaurants aren’t allowed to resume indoor dining. Gordon said the latest MDHHS order is “based on settled science and Michigan values.”“We are cautiously moving to address other activities based on two core, science-based values,” Gordon said.

LANSING, Mich. – On Monday, Michigan health officials released a series of studies, which they have used to justify the decision to halt indoor dining, close entertainment venues and call a timeout on organized sports, as well as the 12-day extension. “This may be the most difficult time in our whole struggle with COVID-19 since March, especially with the holidays approaching,” Gov. For weeks, restaurant owners and lawmakers have asked the governor to be more transparent about the science behind the orders. Experts are hoping hospitalizations decline and want cases and the positivity rate to drop before lifting the restrictions. People are still coming into ERs even weeks after they have been diagnosed,” Khaldun said.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) director and a Wayne State University Law School professor are recounting their interaction with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. MDHHS Director Robert Gordon clerked for Ginsburg right out of Yale Law School. “She was a quiet person. “She was a wonderful combination of fierce defender of equality, a brilliant jurist and a kind human being.”Wayne State University Law School’s distinguished professor Robert Sedler is a contemporary of Ginburg’s, and they crossed paths over the years fighting for gender equality. The concern for people, the concern for equality, the concern for rights that is reflected in her opinion comes out when you meet her as a person,” he said.