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Michigan reports 9,814 new COVID cases, 165 deaths in last week
The numbers show a slight increase from last week, but experts note some cases are not being recorded
By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, News, COVID-19, pandemic, Michigan
Audit of unemployment agency found fraud during pandemic, UIA says report is missing context
UIA director says the OAG’s audit is ‘rehashing’ old findings and ‘is not good use of taxpayer resources’
By Allison R. Donahue, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, News, Michigan, unemployment, COVID-19, pandemic, Unemployment Insurance Agency, Office of Auditor General
Group backs renewal of child tax credit for rural Michigan kids
The initial 2021 expansion helped bring thousands of Michigan families and their kids out of poverty during the pandemic
By Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Michigan News, Politics & Elections, Michigan, Child Tax Credit, Republicans, Democrats, pandemic
Michigan surpasses 40,000 COVID deaths
Michigan currently has an overall vaccination rate of 69%, putting it in the lower half of state vaccination rates
By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, COVID-19, coronavirus, Michigan, pandemic
‘The pandemic is over.’ But, is it?
President Biden declared the pandemic over on ‘60 Minutes.’ But pandemics have a way of confounding predictions.
By Abdul El-Sayed
Tags: The Incision, The Incision, Joe Biden, pandemic, COVID-19, coronavirus
Libraries like Detroit’s need our support now, more than ever
As Detroit Public Library gradually opens branches for the first time since March 2020, it’s important that we support them
By Monica Williams
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Views & Opinions, Detroit, libraries, pandemic, COVID-19, Detroit Public Library
Whitmer tests positive for COVID-19 for the first time
The Michigan governor made the announcement late Monday afternoon
By Jon King, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Governor Whitmer, COVID-19, Gretchen Whitmer, Big Gretch, Michigan, Coronavirus, pandemic, Michigan Advance
Unlike COVID, monkeypox shouldn’t be so hard to fight. So why have we failed to contain it?
The pox on our house
Tags: The Incision, The Incision, monkeypox, U.S., virus, pandemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, epidemiology, World Health Organization
Wiz Khalifa brings his weed brand to Michigan and Jack White is going to perform in Flint (finally): The top 10 Metro Times headlines of the week
Here's what our readers clicked on the most
By Alex Washington
Tags: ICYMI, COVID-19, Pandemic, Coronavirus, Jack White, Wiz Khalifa, Cannabis, concert, Flint, weed, dispensary, republican, GOP
It’s no mystery why COVID-19 deaths have risen in Michigan
These charts show that COVID-19 cases and deaths are higher in unvaccinated people
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, Michigan, Whitmer
Movement Festival returns to Detroit’s Hart Plaza for the first time since 2019, with a sixth stage and new underground layout
The show must go on
By Ashley Zlatopolsky
Tags: Movement, Music Feature, Detroit, Movement Festival, techno, Hart Plaza, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, Cover Story
Fauci tells 2020 U of M grads to challenge ‘untruths’ while anti-vaxxers protest outside
Seemingly acknowledging COVID-19 conspiracies during his speech, Fauci urged graduates to not turn a blind eye to ‘egregious distortions of reality’
Tags: Michigan News, News, Fauci, University of Michigan, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic
COVID isn’t over
At least not for me… or thousands of other people
Tags: The Incision, The Incision, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, health care
How a ‘not qualified,’ overzealous judge just rewrote public health law as we know it
Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s opinion read like a Facebook post, not a ruling
Tags: The Incision, The Incision, COVID-19, coronavirus, Florida, Trump's America, pandemic
Medicare for All is on the come up
Not only did the pandemic demonstrate how broken our healthcare system is, but it made it worse
Tags: The Incision, healthcare, health care, Medicare for All, Bernie Sanders, the Squad, universal healthcare, universal health care, COVID-19, pandemic
Detroit’s Eastern Market Flower Day is back for the first time since 2019
Tags: Things to Do, Eastern Market, Detroit, spring, pandemic, COVID-19, coronavirus
The COVID mistake we keep on making
Tags: The Incision, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, government, CDC, Congress, Biden
Feeling supply chain pinch, Jack White calls on major labels to build their own vinyl pressing plants again
Tags: Music News, Jack White, vinyl records, music industry, Third Man Records, pandemic, COVID-19
New: Prosecutor says Howell woman who tweeted criticism of COVID misinformation won’t be charged
Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, COVID-19, Pandemic, Coronavirus
Understanding the CDC’s new masking guidelines
Tags: The Incision, masks, CDC, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic
Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler’s birthday
By Steve Neavling
Side Hustle Lounge opens in downtown Detroit just in time for the NFL Draft
By Layla McMurtrie
Bombshell Treat Bar readies to open in Berkley