As coronavirus rages, influenza cases are almost nonexistent this year
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
This Michigan Department of Health and Human Services chart shows influenza hospitalizations based on a survey of hospitals in Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Ingham, and Washtenaw counties. The 2020-21 season shown in the dotted black line along the bottom has been one of the lightest influenza seasons on record, with only six influenza-associated hospitalizations to date reported to MDHHS by the counties included in the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project. (The numbers across the bottom of the chart indicate the week of the year, starting with the 40th week of year at the beginning of October and running through the 20th week near the end of April.)
Michigan’s McLaren to Pay $7.7M to Resolve Alleged Drug Violations January 21, 2021
The civil settlement was announced by the U.S. attorneys in Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan.
It follows a years-long investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration that started after the agency learned an unregistered substance abuse treatment facility was improperly receiving controlled substances from a pharmacy in western Michigan.
The government also alleges that McLaren pharmacies in Port Huron and Yale dispensed Schedule II drugs without written prescriptions and despite red flags that the drugs were being diverted by a pharmacist-in-charge.
The DEA lists morphine, methadone, hydrocodone and fentanyl as examples of Schedule II substances.
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McLaren Health Care Corporation has agreed to pay a record $7,750,000 civil penalty to the U.S. government to resolve alleged violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act.
The civil settlement was announced earlier this week by the U.S. Attorneys for the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan. This is the largest settlement involving a major health care system for drug diversion ever in the history of the United States, said Matthew Schneider, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, who announced on Thursday his plans to resign from his position at the beginning of February.