Health

One of the biggest challenges has been finding a Covid test or N-95 mask, but Loveluck encouraged people to keep tabs on social media for distribution events that are being planned.

"We shut down, we cannot operate without our volunteer partners," he said. "In order to do what we do for the community, we rely on our volunteers to help."

"We have never seen this many children hospitalized with COVID-19," said Dr. Erika Newman, C.S. Mott's Children's Hospital. "We are seeing younger kids and teens with Covi-related respiratory illnesses, pneumonia."

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said state officials "had to act quickly with blunt tools just to keep people from getting the virus" at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic because there were not vaccines.

“We’re trying to do our best to keep students and staff safe, but we also understand that it’s important for students and staff to be in school as much as possible," said Dr. Steve Matthews. "So, we think these guidelines will support that."

“Even though I choose to be fully vaccinated and received the booster shot, the omicron variant was still able to catch up with me,” Bouchard said.

The shadow of omicron's spread through Michigan has forced the state into one of its most precarious positions since the pandemic arrived.

Michigan recorded its highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic on Monday,

Michigan had six COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents in the past week, the seventh-highest among all states.

"Just like Covid never seems to end, Covid scams never seem to end, either," she said. "If it's not on the FDA website - don't buy it and certainly don't use it," she said.

"We are hopeful that by waiting until February 1, we will be able to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and return to face-to-face classes more seamlessly," the school said in a statement.

First the governor's husband Marc Mallory contracted the virus and now her second-in-command on Sunday got the virus from his little daughter Ruby.

Doctors say a fourth COVID-19 shot is likely coming as the world continues to fight the omicron variant of the deadly virus.

On Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, Michigan reported 23,165cases of COVID-19 and 103 deaths over the past week. That's an average of 3,309 cases a day.

In addition to expanding access to the shot among younger groups, people are now advised to get their booster shot five months after completing the vaccine series, instead of six months.