A Beaumont doctor takes to social media after repeated encounters with patients who were in COVID denial or demanded unproven medications, while refusing vaccines. Compassion fatigue can take a toll.
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.
Republican majority advanced bills that seek to bar local school mask mandates and allow broad parental waivers. Gov. Whitmer is likely to veto the proposals should they reach her.
Roughly 18 months into a deadly pandemic, hospitals across the state face critical frontline staff shortages, notably among nurses. While traveling nurses command top dollar as fill-ins, staff nurses at major health systems confront feelings of grief, rage and burnout.
COVID testing supplies already face supply chain challenges in Michigan. Some labs say the rise in delta variant cases combined with new testing mandates for people who reject vaccines may lead to critical delays.
Hospitals lauded federal vaccine requirements that cover virtually all Michigan healthcare workers as a win for patient safety. But workers’ unions warned the regulations could force a worker exodus from an already short-staffed industry.
Is this legal? How will it be enforced? The federal rule isn’t yet written, but here’s what we know about the test and vaccination requirement for employers with more than 100 workers.
More than 6,000 businesses employing about half of the state’s workers are likely affected by the president's rule requiring vaccines or weekly tests for companies with more than 100 workers.
Michigan hospitalizations for COVID are nowhere near levels of the spring surge, but so many staffers are leaving health systems that there is not the personnel to care for many new patients, the vast majority of whom are unvaccinated.
The Detroit Public Schools Community District had 50,000 students enrolled on the first day of school, but it may take home visits to get all of them in the classroom.
Fewer K-12 students will likely have to stay home from school because of exposure to COVID under new recommendations from the state health department. But local schools and health departments will have the final say on safety rules this year.
African-American and low-income third-graders were far more likely to be flagged for possible retention due to low reading test scores than their white or non-poor classmates. How many students are actually being held back remains unclear.
We can have both protections against COVID-19 and the benefits of in-person learning if we are willing to take common sense measures in Michigan’s schools, including wearing face masks.
