LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan’s chief medical executive and a key adviser to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during the coronavirus pandemic, is leaving state government for a new job in the private sector. She will be replaced at least temporarily by Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they’re confident there will be enough for both qualified older Americans seeking booster shots and the young children for whom initial vaccines are expected to be approved ...

The U.S. launched a campaign to offer boosters of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to millions of Americans on Friday even as federal health officials stressed the real problem remains getting first shots to the unvaccinated. “We will not boost our way out of this ...

KINGSFORD/IRON RIVER — Local health officials Friday lifted the indoor mask order for kindergarten through sixth-grade students while in a school-related setting, saying the 2022 state budget bill contains language that could put department funding at risk if the mandate remained in ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office said Friday she will declare unenforceable a Republican-written budget provision that seeks to ban indoor mask requirements for children. The Democrat had been expected to block the language as unconstitutional since $55 billion in ...

State data Friday showed 237 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday, including 28 cases in Dickinson County and 23 in Menominee County. Across the border in Wisconsin, Marinette County had 37 more confirmed positives Friday to add a total of 175 new cases in a ...