The numbers at Beaumont Health, Michigan’s largest hospital system, are the latest reminder of the dangers facing hospital workers in metro Detroit.
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Michigan third in nation for coronavirus, last for data about patients
Unlike other states, Michigan doesn’t release information about coronavirus recoveries, patients on ventilators or in intensive care. Michigan is tied with six other states in releasing the least data, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
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Detroit hospital: 734 employees have tested positive for coronavirus
Henry Ford is among several metro Detroit hospitals struggling to respond to a major influx of COVID-19 patients. As the virus threatens its capacity, Henry Ford is likely to request volunteers from other hospitals.
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Intensive care nurse in Flint dies of the coronavirus
The latest death underscores the danger and anxiety for health care workers on Michigan’s front lines as the virus spreads through the state.
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Nurses say Detroit hospital told them to leave after coronavirus protest
Night-shift nurses staged a protest at the hospital over heavy patient caseloads that they said were dangerous. Hospital officials asked the nurses to leave, they said.
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At 98, a pilot who fought the Nazis urges unity against the coronavirus
Benjamin Rollason finds common themes in the bombs that German planes dropped on his childhood home near Birmingham, England and an invisible virus that has families huddled inside their homes.
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Beaumont chief blasts Michigan for lack of hospital data during coronavirus
Beaumont Health CEO John Fox faults the state for not forcing hospitals to share real-time data on available resources at other hospitals when patient counts surge, leaving patients to wait hours to be transferred.
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Hey, Michigan, here’s how to make a face mask to fight coronavirus
Got a T-shirt and two rubber bands? You can make a face mask. Will it keep you from getting COVID-19? No guarantees. But medical research tells us it’s better than nothing.
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Inside Michigan hospitals, a ‘crushingly hard’ week in coronavirus fight
In the toughest week yet in Michigan’s fight against coronavirus, hospital workers share their fears, anxieties and triumphs of treating patients and ensuring they don’t bring the highly contagious virus home to their loved ones. “You don’t know what you’re walking into, and you don’t know if you’ll be able to walk away without being sick, yourself,” one says.
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Michigan’s COVID-19 death toll is undercounted. So some want to test the dead.
Assumptions, a lack of testing, and false negatives lead to an unclear tally of COVID-19 deaths. A Detroit effort might change that.