Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press

He’d look at me, pleadingly, the reality of the situation dawning anew each time. And then he would wink or mouth the words “I love you” and his eyes would close again.

The massive coronavirus vaccination effort to immunize Michigan’s roughly 600,000 health care workers — and eventually the entire population — is in high gear as Pfizer’s vaccine candidate undergoes a federal hearing Thursday to review whether it can be safely injected into the arms of millions of Americans.

Those who survive COVID-19 are often left with puzzling and sometimes debilitating conditions months after they are considered recovered from the infectious part of the disease.

Michigan now ranks sixth nationally in coronavirus cases and fifth for the number of COVID-19 related deaths, state health officials say.

Michigan Medicine, Henry Ford and a medical research center based in Farmington Hills are involved in Phase 3 clinical trials to find a safe and effective vaccine for a virus that has killed over 183,000 people in the United States.

Even with federal relief funds intended for providers slammed by COVID-19 patients, some hospitals say they are still shedding jobs to balance their books during the outbreak.

Layoffs and schedule reductions for 1,000 full-time workers or their equivalents will begin this week and continue through the end of July at Trinity Health Michigan, which includes the St. Joseph Mercy Health System and Mercy Health. 

The pain of not knowing what happened to her husband after she dropped him off at a Detroit Hospital, torments Denise Chandler. A former nurse helps.

A new report highlights disparities in how federal coronavirus relief money was distributed, suggesting Michigan hospitals were shorted.