vaccination

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.

Michigan health officials announced a massive expansion of eligibility for the MPV vaccine, just as the FDA issued an emergency use authorization that means the 6,400 doses the state has on hand could immunize more than 30,000 people.

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.

A year ago, Dr. Marc McClelland thought he'd seen the worst of COVID-19 in his ICUs. Now he says it's worse than ever, and almost all his patients are unvaccinated.

How can COVID-19 be surging again in Michigan when more than five million people in the state have been fully vaccinated? Millions of others remain unvaccinated. Statewide data show the overwhelming majority of hospitalizations and deaths are being driven by people who haven't gotten the vaccine.

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.

Health officials are worried about the drop in routine childhood vaccination rates over the past year, especially as schools start soon.Over half of…

According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, 31% of Michigan children are not up to date on CDC-recommended childhood…

Today, on Stateside, we discuss the legality of requiring employees to get a vaccine. Plus, a doctor in training writes about her time at a Detroit…

Today on Stateside, what Michigan parents should know about the news that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will soon be available to kids as young as 12 years…