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Here are the COVID-19 updates for Sunday, May 16 and Monday, May 17. Credit: WZZM/CDC Published: 2:42 PM EDT May 17, 2021 Updated: 4:05 PM EDT May 17, 2021 MICHIGAN, USA — Here is the latest information on the coronavirus in Michigan, including the number of cases state offices report and other updates affecting West Michigan. Sundays & Mondays Cases On Monday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 2,230 daily cases of COVID-19 and 20 de...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has updated its Gatherings and Mask Order to align with the CDC's latest guidance. The new order will go into effect Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 9 a.m. EST.

How Grand Rapids Comic Con organizers plan to pull event off amid COVID with Boba Fett reunion Updated 8:15 AM; Facebook Share GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Not one, but three Boba Fetts will be flying into Grand Rapids for one of the biggest comic cons in Michigan and the first since the COVID pandemic hit more than a year ago. Organizers canceled Grand Rapids Comic Con in 2020 due to COVID and announced a “Spring Fling” for this April, but postponed that for what they are now calling a “Summer Ba...

GRPS begins offering vaccines at high schools Wednesday Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. GRPS File Photo and last updated 2021-05-11 18:45:11-04 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Wednesday starting at 2 p.m., Grand Rapids Public Schools will be hosting vaccine clinics at neighborhood high schools. Currently open to students ages 16 and older, the first day of the clinic will be at Ottawa Hills High Sch...

A recommendation to make Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine available to children as young as 12 slated to go before a federal vaccine advisory committee on Wednesday.

Grand Rapids Public Schools is holding three different COVID-19 vaccine clinics at neighborhood high schools this week for students and their parents.

Walk-in COVID-19 vaccines available at Spectrum Health locations Courtesy ASM Global Spectrum Health will be offering walk-in opportunities to receive a free COVID-19 vaccination Tuesday through Saturday at the West Michigan Vaccine Clinic and the 60th Street clinic. Walk-in clinics will be held at the following dates and times: West Michigan Vaccine Clinic at DeVos Place Tuesday: 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thursday: 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday: 11 a.m. -1:30 p.m. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be adm...

For the first time, the people redrawing Michigan’s political district maps are constitutionally obligated to seek input from the people living and working in the regions they’ll be creating political boundary lines for.

Michigan voters chose to take politicians out of the redistricting process. The time has come to weigh in. Updated May 11, 2021; Facebook Share Michigan voters in November 2018 chose a new way to map out the state’s federal and legislative political districts. Starting Tuesday, they’ll have the chance to participate in that process in person. That initiative, put on the ballot by the group Voters Not Politicians, took political redistricting — the process of redrawing Congressional and s...

West Michigan Docs: Kids Should Get Vaccine Shortly after it was announced that children aged 12-15 would be eligible for the two dose Pfizer vaccine, West Michigan parents began considering whether or not their eligible kids should get the vaccine, and the short answer from West Michigan doctors is, yes. Get our free mobile app In a media call this morning, Dr. Rosemary Olivero, Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital and Dr. Liam Sullivan, Infectious Diseas...