The number of COVID hospitalizations across Michigan fell four days straight, teasing hope even as dozens of hospitals remain at or near capacity. It’s “not sustainable,” according to a state hospital association, asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to continue pandemic orders.
Upper Peninsula
Posted inTalent & Education
Upper Peninsula students can’t exit COVID quarantine for football playoffs
Pickford is the reigning Division 1 eight-man football state champ, but it couldn’t beat COVID-19. School board members criticized for putting sports before student safety.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Loved to death: Iconic Michigan lakeshores battered by crowds, waste
National parklands at Pictured Rocks and Sleeping Bear Dunes are overrun by traffic, hikers, trash and failing septic systems. Record crowds outpace stagnant federal funding, leaving park rangers feeling helpless.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
A small hospital in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula braces for COVID
There are 15 hospitals sprinkled across more than 300 miles in the U.P. Many have no or few beds for ICU patients. And that’s usually fine, until a pandemic strikes.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Gray wolves, now off endangered list, may be targeted by Michigan farmers
If the federal change is upheld, farmers will have more leeway to kill wolves preying on livestock. But legal wolf hunts won’t be sanctioned, for now. Here is what to expect if the state takes control of the gray wolf population.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
Upper Peninsula man nearly killed by COVID. He still doubts the data.
After nine days in the hospital, Dwaine Taylor — COVID case #290 in Delta County — said he no longer believes the coronavirus is a hoax. But he remains skeptical of the cases elsewhere, underscoring an awkward truth: COVID is complex, and so are people and politics.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
50 men held an Upper Peninsula retreat traced to COVID. No one’s talking.
Officials said the organizer hung up on a nurse trying to warn others of possible exposure. Another person accused health officials of ‘working for Satan.’ Meanwhile, infections proliferate in the eastern U.P.
Posted inMichigan Government
Whitmer orders restrictions in Upper Peninsula as coronavirus cases spike
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer requires the U.P. to adhere to the same guidelines as most of the Lower Peninsula. The move comes as cases have exploded in western counties near Wisconsin.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula getting hit hard by surge of coronavirus cases
After months of relatively few cases, the Upper Peninsula has seen coronavirus case counts soar, with most in the western part of the region along the border with Wisconsin.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
The deadly disease that wiped out 90% of the Upper Peninsula’s bats, and a new hope for one species
A new study shows a glimmer of hope for bats affected by white-nose syndrome.