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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.
Here's to the families like mine that are enjoying what I’m sure feels like the best summer ever thanks to this vaccine, and the incredible researchers and medical professionals who made it possible.
Public health officials around Michigan note that vaccination rates have fallen for a host of childhood illnesses. One health department now avoids using the word “vaccination” in its campaign to get children immunized.
The newest subvariant appears to duck vaccine immunity that, by now, is waning among many residents. And many doctors say they are seeing patients who keep getting reinfected.
Hospitalizations have risen along with prevalence of two new COVID-19 variants that are considered more transmissible than earlier variants. Doctors say it’s unclear how long the increases will last.
Fueled in part by COVID, 33 of the state’s 83 counties lost residents in 2020 and 2021, including population centers Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw.
Michigan’s parks and natural areas are part of the fabric of our state, and we should take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to assure the ability to care for them forever.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unanimously approved vaccines for very young children on Saturday, clearing the way for likely dose availability early this week.
Some residents fell out of the routine of donating blood over the past two years for fear COVID-19. Now, doctors are scrambling to find ways to get people back to donation centers.
The pandemic intensified a long-festering youth mental health crisis and left schools searching for answers. In Michigan, 600 schools have adopted a social-emotional learning curriculum known as TRAILS – Transforming Research into Action to Improve the lives of students. It is poised to grow further – if the Legislature approves $150 million in new funding.
The Michigan attorney general will review allegations nonprofits broke the law by raising money for the measure to strip Gov. Whitmer of emergency powers. The nonprofits say the move is purely political.
Tutoring is one of the most effective ways to catch students up, and the Detroit district appears to be doing much of what experts say is critical to the success of such programs.
The Escanaba first grade teacher will be spending time away from the classroom next school year to advocate for mental health resources, as well as employee retention and recruitment plans statewide.
Organizers of Unlock Michigan 2, a petition to limit the duration of state and local health orders, announced that it did not collect enough valid signatures before the Wednesday deadline to survive a challenge.
After spending much of high school learning remotely in bedrooms, the high school class of 2022 displayed more mental health challenges and less classroom focus, school leaders say. Will pandemic drift follow them to college?
