Detroit Free Press
Updated 8: 56 a.m. ET April 17, 2020
Here’s the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the Detroit area and around Michigan.
What you need to understand
- Tracking the pandemic: Map of Michigan COVID-19 cases to date
- Coronavirus symptoms to search for, how to get help
- Where to secure free food in metro Detroit
- Psychological health: How to cope during the coronavirus crisis
- How to look for unemployment if you get laid off
- How you can help others
- Here’s who is hiring
- How to keep your groceries, produce tidy and safe
Whitmer intends to unwind stay home order May 1
Gov Gretchen Whitmer said Friday she expects some relaxing of the state’s “stay at home” order on May 1.
Whitmer, appearing on “Good Early Morning America” on ABC, provided no specifics on what procedures might be relieved at month’s end, when the present stay-at-home-order is set to end, and stated any relieving would depend upon science and information, which goes through alter.
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Michigan begins tracking likely COVID-19 deaths and cases
For the very first time given that the coronavirus pandemic began, the Michigan Department of Health and Human being Services will track likely, however unconfirmed, coronavirus cases and deaths and strategies to start offering data next week.
The effort, which has actually been underway given that last week, will allow health authorities to much better comprehend the virus.
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Detroit area health centers resuming surgical treatments, procedures after weeks of red ink
For the very first time in a month, Henry Ford Health System resumed outpatient surgical treatments in specially designated operating rooms at its five medical facilities, Senior Vice President Dr. Steven Kalkanis announced Thursday.
Other health systems, consisting of Detroit Medical Center and Michigan Medication, stated they are also reducing into more surgical treatments.
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