This continuously updated post includes details of Michigan's COVID-19 vaccine distribution, who's getting it, along with new case rates including maps and daily state curve data.
In mid-Michigan, a health officer and a Republican who tried to talk her out of a school mandate are both under fire. His sin was calling for civility in uncivil times.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now authorized boosters for all three, U.S.-approved COVID vaccines. Getting one should be a snap for any eligible person seeking added protection against the deadly virus.
The health system’s announcement Thursday follows similar action taken by Henry Ford Health System for workers’ failure to abide by a COVID vaccine mandate. Other hospitals will likely follow suit once federal vaccine rules are finalized.
If the CDC follows suit Thursday, as expected, vaccinated Michiganders should be able to get a booster by the end of the week, even one that is different from the vaccine they received initially.
At all levels of government in Michigan, federal COVID relief funds are a potential boon for public projects and programs that have endured decades of chronically low investment.
Half of the state’s workforce will be under a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for businesses over 100 people once federal rules are finalized. But it’s been a long wait, and a new coalition wants the White House to cancel the plan.
The impending federal approval of Moderna and J and J boosters leaves plenty of questions about who is eligible for which vaccine, how to find them and whether you can also schedule a flu vaccine.
Michigan families, along with businesses that depend on Canadian visitors, hailed the Biden administration’s announcement that vaccinated Canadians can once again cross into the U.S. beginning in November.
Michigan emergency department visits are up 43 percent, thanks in part to an avalanche of sick people who delayed medical care amid COVID. Some patients wait in hallways for days. Others lose their beds when even sicker patients arrive.
Cases related to outbreaks are down at colleges this fall, but have risen sharply in the state’s K-12 system, where students are far less likely to be vaccinated or required to wear a mask.
On October 27, Bridge Michigan reporters Mike Wilkinson, Ron French and Tracie Mauriello will discuss the current state COVID mandates in the state’s K-12 schools, what’s driving them and what the data tells us.
Bridge analyzed vaccination rates in thousands of census tracts and found a strong correlation with education levels — even in Republican neighborhoods. Use these map to determine the rate in your area.
Count Day stands to look different than it did in the spring, as Michigan school district leaders worry they will lose funding for students who are in quarantine.
Three weeks into the school year, Detroit Public Schools Community District officials still are fielding complaints from parents about its new virtual school.
The Detroit-based hospital system made the numbers public after a deadline passed for staff to get vaccinated. A dozen Michigan health systems were surveyed on staff vaccine rates, offering varying levels of transparency.
Experts attribute the rise to more students in classrooms, fewer masks and a more contagious delta variant, sending infections up in Michigan classrooms.
A state budget praised by both sides is causing widespread confusion and angst because of provisions that threatened funding for agencies that impose school mask mandates.
Gretchen Whitmer is hardly alone among governors in resisting calls for statewide mandate. That’s partly because Michigan’s case rates are relatively low, but also because of deeply divided opinions on the issue.
