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Should you get a flu shot and COVID booster at the same time?
After two years of quiet, the flu is expected to make a comeback this season. The Biden administration suggests people get a flu shot at the same time as the new COVID booster. Michigan health experts weigh in on timing the flu shot.
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Opinion | It’s time — past time — to focus on mental health in Michigan schools
Creating a student-centered school where mental health comes first can go a long way to making the most of our children’s education.
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Study: Michigan program for troubled schools helped mitigate COVID impact
The state’s lowest-performing schools were the hardest hit during the disruption of the pandemic. But the state’s partnership program, which offers more resources and support to these schools, likely helped curb learning loss, an MSU study found.
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Redesigned COVID boosters arrive in Michigan. Here’s what you need to know
More than 200,000 newly designed boosters bound for Michigan specifically target omicron subvariants. Will the new booster hold ground against the virus’ continuing evolution?
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Heart disease exposes disparities, so medicine goes mobile in Detroit
COVID exposed generations-deep health inequities. It also may have mapped out a way to address them.
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Michigan school M-STEP scores down sharply from pre-pandemic testing
Scores in math and English/Language Arts were mostly down this year compared to before the pandemic on the Michigan standardized test known as M-STEP. The results are likely to heavily impact education spending priorities.
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Michigan’s 3rd-grade reading scores show the cost of remote COVID learning
There is a steep increase this year in the percentage of third-graders behind in reading skills — a troubling trend that was far worse for students who spent significant time learning remotely when they were in second grade during the pandemic.
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Math, reading scores plummet on national test, erasing 20 years of progress
In perhaps the most comprehensive portrait of academic loss brought on by COVID, math and reading scores for the nation’s 9-year-olds suffered generational declines between 2020 and 2022. The losses spanned races and income levels, though the lowest-performing students suffered the largest declines.
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Fast-tracked new COVID boosters could be bound for Michigan by next week
The reformulated boosters — one by Moderna and the other by Pfizer — target omicron subvariants B.4 and B.5. With an ever-evolving virus, are they enough?