As cases of Covid-19 spread across the nation, some on social media began calling for a closure f the Mackinac Bridge in order to prevent the entry of the disease into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  Bridge contacted Drs. Markel and Navarro to see what lessons could be learned from so-called “escape communities” during the 1918 influenza pandemic.  Read the story here:

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/some-yoopers-want-close-mackinac-bridge-stop-spread-coronavirus