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Moderna vaccine is expected to get emergency use authorization (EUA) approval on Thursday, December 17, 2020. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is set to meet on Friday and then again Sunday; however, the Sunday meeting could get moved back to Saturday if the EUA for the Moderna vaccine is approved on Thursday.
Moderna vaccine will ship next week once all the approvals are in place. Send any questions to checcimms@michigan.gov.
The weekly LHD Sitrep will be due on Wednesday for the next two weeks. Specifically, reports will be due to MDHHS on December 23, 2020, and December 30, 2020. LHD Sitrep submissions will return to their regular schedule with the sitrep due on January 7, 2021. Contact Jim Koval, CHECC Operations Section Chief if you have any questions.
All State of Michigan offices will be closed to the public on December 24, 2020, December 25, 2020, December 31, 2020, and January 1, 2021. The CHECC will be operational 24/7 during the holidays. CHECC contact information for the holidays: Email address is checcdeptcoor@michigan.gov and phone number is 517-819-0391.
The CHECC is publishing a complete list of the days local health departments and tribal health partners will be closed to the public for the holidays. Local health departments will continue emergency response activities including case investigation, contact tracing, and vaccine distribution.
The HHS emPOWER Program has officially launched the new HHS emPOWER Program Platform, a technical assistance platform that provides information on the HHS emPOWER Program’s data and tools, training, practical uses of emPOWER in Action, and resources to help communities across the nation protect the health and save the lives of at-risk individuals. The Platform provides new fact sheets, job aids, use cases, trainings, helpful resources and links, and more to help communities better address the health care needs of at-risk populations, ensure continuity of care, and reduce stress on the health care system, shelters, and other resources. The Platform also features a new, mobile-ready HHS emPOWER Map that provides advanced cross-jurisdictional data aggregation and data downloading capabilities, as well as access to historical HHS emPOWER Map de-identified data to advance situational awareness and analysis. Users can easily learn more about and launch emPOWER’s other publicly available tools, the HHS emPOWER REST Service and emPOWER AI, directly on the Platform. For more information, review the attached HHS emPOWER Program Platform Fact Sheet or visit the HHS emPOWER Program Platform (https://empowerprogram.hhs.gov) today.
All of us at MDHHS want to wish you a safe, healthy, and joy-filled holiday season!
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