Racial disparities that struck southeast Michigan are repeating in Flint, Saginaw, Lansing and Ypsilanti, highlighting inequities in health care. And even as Detroit cases ebb, the mourning is just beginning: ‘I just feel numb,’ one says.
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Michigan nursing homes, where information on coronavirus goes to die
Michigan will not release the names of nursing homes where there are COVID-19 infections, nor will the City of Detroit or Wayne County, citing privacy concerns. Other states are moving toward identifying infected nursing homes.
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Coronavirus pandemic extends Michigan stay-at-home order until end of April
Additional restrictions will be put on large stores under extended stay-at-home order and vacation travel is banned.
Posted inBusiness Watch
Michigan now second in nation for jobless claims amid coronavirus pandemic
Despite widespread complaints over a sluggish website and slammed call center, the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency successfully processed 817,185 initial benefits claims between March 15 and April 4, second only to the more populous state of California.
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Opinion | In pandemic, a small Michigan hospital staff counts on each other
How a rural west Michigan hospital community leans on each other to weather the pandemic — and finds itself lifted by the community.
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Few coronavirus cases, but hundreds still victims in U.P. tribal community
Bryan Newland, chairman of the northeastern Upper Peninsula tribe, said Bay Mills Indian Community leaders had no choice but to stop paying employees of the tribe’s resort and casinos after a request for federal relief loans went unanswered.
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Coronavirus hits Michigan hospitals, but where are all the other patients?
Emergency rooms and urgent care clinics say they are seeing a drop in visitors. Are people safe and snug at home? Or is fear of getting the coronavirus keeping them from seeking critical treatment for heart or other problems?
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Opinion | I’m an OB-GYN. Halting abortions won’t help supply shortage.
This is no time for putting politics and ideology ahead of patients’ needs, writes a Michigan doctor who offers abortion care during the pandemic.
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Michigan governments take to Zoom. Burps, porn and arrest threats follow.
Amid the coronavirus lockdockdown, local governments are meeting via videoconferencing — and encountering a host of problems. But does the solution infringe upon the public’s right to know how governments conduct the people’s business?
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Opinion | Will our Constitution’s system of checks and balances hold?
The separation of powers. Our system of checks and balances. Adherence to the principle of co-equal branches of government. All are currently under attack by the current administration, a former Michigan senator writes.