The pace of fraud has slowed, officials were told on Thursday. However, it remains unclear to what extent the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency has fixed its problems or identified which cases amounted to crimes.
The U.S. Supreme Court said the Biden order overreached in covering every large business, regardless of risk. Healthcare workers are a different matter, the court decided.
For many hospital systems, this new surge arrives as thousands of hospital workers themselves are testing positive for the virus, putting a further strain on staffing.
On Saturday, a new federal policy allows consumers to purchase up to eight at-home tests a month with insurance. It’s intended to make at-home testing cheaper, but there is some devil in the details.
Keeping students in classrooms amid a volatile pandemic remains an all-consuming topic for school leaders. Children are suffering from years of disruption as districts weigh how to spend billions in additional federal dollars.
Parents in the Detroit Public Schools Community District have until Jan. 31 to turn in COVID testing consent forms if they want their children to learn in person.
A new analysis confirmed what had been feared: Online learning wasn’t as effective as in-person during the COVID-interrupted 2020-21 school year, and academic gaps between racial groups grew.
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.