COVID

The city of Benton Harbor reckons with high lead levels in residents’ water. Also, nurses and doctors are working marathon shifts to care for COVID patients. Sometimes the hours aren’t the hardest part of the job. Plus, what conditions are like at one U.P. hospital experiencing an acute staff shortage.

The state legislature takes up a ban on mask mandates in schools. Also, how the COVID era has changed the way we think about and use social spaces. And, we all felt the impact of more mosquitos this year, but does that translate to more mosquito-borne diseases?

Facing "extreme" patient loads, staffing shortages, and rising COVID cases, Beaumont Health asked patients to go to urgent cares instead if they can.

As COVID-19 hospitalizations increase, health officials and health care workers are concerned about a fourth surge overwhelming hospitals and health care…

Michigan is either lagging behind much of the country in the latest Delta variant spike, or will largely dodge a significant surge. On today's Stateside,…

As healthcare workers head into what appears to be yet another surge in COVID hospitalizations, watching emergency rooms and intensive care units fill up…

It was Sunday, August 22, and the board at NorthPointe Christian Schools in Grand Rapids was holding an urgent evening meeting. Just two days earlier, the…

Today on Stateside, making sense of breakthrough COVID-19 cases. Then, a chat with podcaster and lifelong Flint resident Rayvon Taylor, whose episodes…

Issues & Ale COVID Update: Making Sense of the New NormalTuesday, September 14, 20217:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.A Michigan Radio Live In-Person and Virtual…

Wednesday morning, protestors flocked to the doors of the Oakland County Health Division after the county issued a mask mandate for K-12 schools. The…