Covid-19

Washtenaw County Health Department has announced it will lift its remaining COVID-19 health orders in K-12 educational settings effective Feb 28. This includes two orders, one requiring masks, and another for isolation and…

by Maggie Villiger More than two years after the first cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed, people are exhausted by the coronavirus pandemic, ready for all this to end. When – if ever – is it realistic to expect SARS-CoV-2 will recede from…

by Anna Gustafson, Michigan Advance Ten million free KN95 masks are now available to Michiganders as they continue to face the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday.  The KN95 masks are…

by Libby Richards, Jessica Bane Robert, Katherine Basbaum, L. Allison Phillips Walking as a source of solitude and connection Libby Richards, Associate Professor of Nursing, Purdue University As a busy working mom of two active…

by Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance I never fully transitioned back into a post-COVID world after getting vaxxed and even boosted, because I understood that reality didn’t exist for millions of immunocompromised people, seniors and…

by Laura Olson The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a green light to Americans who want to receive a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by a different company than the one that produced the initial shot they…

by Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported on October 18 that a total of 1,090,021 Michiganders have tested positive for COVID-19 and 21,609 have died from the virus — an…

by Matthew Woodruff  The key scientific advisory council of the Food and Drug Administration has voted to deny use of a “booster” shot of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine to the general public – a move that will likely disappoint…

by Jillian Carr COVID-19 stay-at-home orders surely saved many lives, but a growing number of studies document that lockdowns led to more reports of domestic violence. Even as 911 calls for police help increased, official…

Campus community must submit vaccine information by Aug. 30 On July 30, 2021, the University of Michigan announced that all students, faculty and staff on all three campuses of the college are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19…