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Covid-19

COVID toll hits 800,000 to close out year filled with death

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Carolyn Burnett is bracing for her first Christmas without her son Chris, a beloved high school football coach whose outdoor memorial service drew a crowd of hundreds. The unvaccinated 34-year-old father of four died in September as a result of COVID-19 after nearly two ...

State: 16 new COVID cases in Dickinson, 11 in Iron

The pace of new COVID-19 activity may be slowing in the region, with Michigan data Monday showing 16 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County in the past three days — along with a new death blamed on the virus — while Iron County had 11 new cases. In Wisconsin, that state’s ...

Court won’t order hospital to use deworming drug on man

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals won’t order a hospital to use a deworming drug to treat a man who has health problems related to COVID-19. The court said it won’t disrupt the judgment of doctors at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. “A court directive in ...

Dickinson adds 26 virus cases, 1 death

State data Friday showed 26 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County in the past two days — along with a new death blamed on the virus — while Iron County had 12 new cases. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated 242 ...

COVID surge ‘deeply concerning’

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's COVID-19 surge is trending in a “deeply concerning direction” ahead of the winter holidays and, unlike a year ago, is not subsiding following Thanksgiving, state health officials said Friday while urging vaccines and booster shots. Infection rates and ...

DIDHD lists three more virus deaths in Iron, one in Dickinson

Local data Thursday showed Dickinson County has had 77 new confirmed COVID-19 positives and a virus-related death in the past seven days, while Iron County had three more deaths and 33 new coronavirus cases. Dickinson County also has had 46 probable coronavirus positives since Dec. 2 and Iron ...