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Uncooperative Bay County hair stylist made tracking P.1 variant in Michigan even harder [View all]
(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.
....(snip)....
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.
....(snip)....
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/
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