ALPENA — Newly reported coronavirus infections were in the single digits on Wednesday in Northeast Michigan, a respite after 1,448 new cases were reported in the last month. Public health officials on Wednesday reported nine newly infected Northeast Michiganders, including one Alpena County ...
ALPENA — As COVID-19 infection counts rise across the state and nation, many people are doing their best to stay away from other people’s mouths. Dentists, on the other hand, dive right in. Like other health care workers, dentists, dental hygienists, and other dental care workers put ...
LANSING (AP) — The Michigan House has canceled voting sessions scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday after a staffer tested positive for the coronavirus, complicating the Legislature’s final days of business in the two-year term. Speaker Lee Chatfield, a Levering Republican, said Tuesday that the employee works with several lawmakers and committees but “had nothing to do with” a controversial election hearing attended last week by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Trump announced over the weekend that Giuliani has been hospitalized with COVID-19, which ...
ALPENA -- One more Alcona County resident has died after being infected with COVID-19, local public health officials said today as the number of Northeast Michigan residents infected with COVID-19 continues to rise. Public health officials today reported 33 newly infected Northeast ...
ALPENA -- Deaths did not spike at Northeast Michigan nursing homes, according to updated state data posted online today following a “glitch” that led to erroneous numbers released on Monday. Since the pandemic hit Michigan in mid-March, nine Northeast Michigan nursing home residents have ...
LANSING (AP) — Nonpublic schools sued Monday after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration extended a coronavirus order that prevents in-person instruction at high schools, saying it violates the First Amendment right to practice religion. The federal lawsuit, filed in Michigan’s Western District, was brought by a group representing more than 400 nonpublic schools across the state, as well as three Catholic high schools and 11 parents. The state health department lengthened the restriction by 12 days, through Dec. 20. It took effect Nov. 18 and also applies to public high schools ...
