Michigan Health Watch

The Biden administration had pushed for boosters this fall for the general population, but an FDA scientific panel pushed back. Final approval is expected next week.

Beaumont Health in southeast Michigan on Wednesday became the latest health system to temporarily shut beds because of staffing shortages.

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.

Vaccine mandates remain deeply divisive. But most workers ultimately got their shots and kept their jobs at Henry Ford.

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.

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.