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A jury has awarded more than $12 million to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Hospitalizations from COVID-19 have decreased markedly, but the illness is still a serious threat and vaccines are a first line of defense.

Flu season is approaching, and state health officials are hoping four million residents get a vaccine — along with an updated COVID booster.

Things are different from when the first wave of the original vaccine and its boosters came through. There won’t be an all-out push from public health agencies to get people vaccinated through mass vaccination clinics. And shots are still free for now, but that could change early next year.

Two reporters from The Detroit News joined to recap recent Michigan-related testimony given at the January 6 committee hearing, as well as what Michiganders should know about new vaccines for kids under 5. Then, we discussed new viewing stations for colorblind visitors in the Porcupine Mountains, and a journalist shared her story of reporting on Mount Pleasant's residential boarding school.

It's not because they don't take the pandemic seriously. In fact, unvaccinated parents in Detroit are least likely to say it's safe to resume normal, pre-pandemic activities: even basic ones like grocery shopping or walking outside.

For nearly a year now, state health officials have been trying to convince parents to get their kids vaccinated for COVID-19. And that includes turning to the people who already have a direct line to tens of thousands of Michigan-based moms: influencers.

Truck drivers in Canada who oppose COVID-19 vaccine requirements have been protesting in both Ottawa, the nation’s capitol, and further west in Emerson. Now, they have a new target in sight: the Windsor-Detroit border crossing.

“I will also say personally, in our hospital, I have seen more children hospitalized and some very sick in the ICU with COVID-19 in just the last few months since the Delta variant came about than I have throughout the whole pandemic," a doctor said during a town hall meeting.

Current CDC guidelines allow for the majority of adults to get a vaccine booster, if it's been more than six months since their first round.