COVID

As schools return to near normalcy, we check in on the latest COVID numbers and vaccination rates. Then we hear about a West Michigan library's response to defunding over LGBTQ materials. And then we dig into this year's Detroit Month of Design.

Besides making sure their kids' vaccinations are up to date, health experts recommend COVID and flu shots, which can be given at the same time.

In a statement Monday night, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said she had tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.

At a media briefing on Monday hosted by the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians, Michigan physicians said there has been a drop in immunization rates for diseases such as polio and measles since the COVID-19 pandemic began, particularly among children.

Researchers asked more than 1,100 adolescents and young adults about various incentives offered to young people to get a COVID vaccine

There could be clues in other debilitating, poorly understood syndromes that share "remarkable similarities" to long COVID.

Even as Michigan's COVID hospitalizations are climbing again, the rate of people on ventilators or in the ICU is lower than expected. That could be a sign that antiviral treatments are having a real impact.

Michigan Radio's investigation into conditions in the Wayne County Jail during COVID.

A return to school masking and timely COVID data reporting are among new demands from a Michigan parent group.

COVID-19 case numbers are rising again, but experts say that due to the prevalence of rapid home tests there are likely many more cases than reported. One indicator is the statewide test positivity rate, which is now averaging above 16%.