Scholarships for aspiring teachers and loan forgiveness for current educators won’t stop Michigan schools from closing now, but it could lessen the state’s teacher shortage long-term, says the state’s top school official
Short supplies nationally and tight eligibility limitations for Paxlovid and molnupiravier will restrict access to the most vulnerable (which includes some unvaccinated patients).
Michigan campuses had massive COVID outbreaks in the first year of the pandemic, which have been largely sidestepped this year. Officials are trying to be proactive amid the latest surge, with some going remote in January.
The Unlock Michigan ballot proposal would allow politicians to replace public health experts in making decisions on infectious diseases. That is irresponsible, say two former heads of state public health in Michigan.
School mask mandates are declining across Michigan even as COVID cases rise to crazy levels. And with a surge in teachers and other staffers out sick, the state is taking a harder line on quarantines.
Some businesses are operating with as many as one-fifth fewer workers as the state battles a wave of the omicron variant, due to staff illness or quarantine after exposure.
Things were looking up, but the fast-spreading variant is filling hospitals again, especially in hard-hit southeast Michigan. The good news is omicron is mild for most.
Republicans are using Michigan’s unique law in an attempt to tighten voter ID laws, limit emergency health orders and create a new tax credit program to fund private school education.
The first-ever COVID treatment in a pill drops risk of hospitalization and death for those infected by 89 percent, according to drugmaker Pfizer. But only some people will qualify to get it.
The Buckeye state used federal funds to freely distribute 4.8 million at-home COVID tests at libraries, schools, rec centers and union halls. Michigan is nowhere close to those numbers as the holidays loom.
On top of continued isolation at many of Michigan’s nursing homes amid COVID, nearly 9,000 fewer workers now care for nursing home residents — raising concern about the well-being of those who live there.
With students in and out of classrooms because of COVID or just plain stress, one teacher describes the struggle of kids learning “how to do school again” in an unsustainable year.
If upheld in court, about two million Michigan workers will be affected by a Biden administration edict that requires large workplaces to ensure workers are vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. Supreme Court may soon jump in to decide the matter.
In a year-end interview, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel vows to protect the vaccine mandate and abortion rights and blasts Enbridge over Line 5.
