Children under 12 aren’t eligible to get vaccinated and likely won’t be able to receive the shot for several months. That means families are facing a lot of difficult decisions about what’s safe and what isn’t.

LANSING – The return of high school sports announced Thursday is a part of a much larger political battle in Lansing. The GOP Legislature is tying more than $3 billion in COVID relief to Gov. RELATED: Michigan GOP threatens to withhold billions in school funding over COVID precautions“I am eager to find common ground with the Legislature so that we can get this done,” Whitmer said. We need to use these tax dollars, they are our tax dollars,” Schroeder said. READ: 7 takeaways from Whitmer’s COVID update: Michigan sports, variant spread, metrics

Ann Mapes is a Michigan senior who didn’t need to show identification, she was just asked to roll up her sleeve. We have to make the system work for everybody.”READ: Tracking COVID-19 cases, deaths by Michigan countyThe only local county leader to speak with the Local 4 Defenders was Macomb County executive Mark Hackel. Macomb County has 165,000 people over the age of 65. Gretchen Whitmer opened the state to Phase 1B to include more people, the number of Macomb County Reisdents eligible to be vaccinated jumped to 265,000. The state sent Macomb County 7,200 doses this week -- enough to last the county two days, Hackel said.