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Beaumont Health, McLaren Health Care and Michigan Medicine are the latest Michigan hospital systems to announce they are easing visitor restrictions now that COVID-19 case rates are falling in the state and the number of people who ve been vaccinated grows.
Beaumont Health, the eight-hospital health system based in Southfield, said that starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, patients who do not have COVID-19 and who are not suspected of having the virus may have one visitor per day, regardless of that visitor s vaccination status.
At Michigan Medicine, starting Wednesday, one visitor per day will be allowed for adult patients of the Ann Arbor-based health system affiliated with the University of Michigan as long as the patient does not have COVID-19 and is not suspected of having the virus.
Official: Apartment fire likely caused by smoking
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CENTER LINE A fire at the Lawrence Park senior apartments that sent one resident to the hospital and left three others needing treatment at the scene was probably caused by smoking in the bedroom of a seventh-floor unit, according to Division Fire Chief Charles Schubert of the Center Line Public Safety Department.
Schubert said firefighters from Center Line and the U.S. Army Detroit Arsenal were dispatched to the building on 10 Mile Road, west of Van Dyke Avenue, at 7:22 p.m. April 30 after a resident called 911 to report smoke in the hallway on the seventh floor. That was confirmed by the building’s alarm company, which reported a commercial fire alarm.
Author of the article: Doug Schmidt
Publishing date: May 12, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 2 minute read Shots fired! In this Sept. 17, 2018 file photo, police officers are shown investigating at the scene of a confrontation between a man with a shotgun and Windsor cops responding to a domestic call for assistance at the Countryside Village trailer park off Division Road. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
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A Windsor man who barely survived being shot twice in the chest by city police three years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday to having triggered the violence in the first place by threatening two officers with a shotgun.
The uptick comes as demand for the vaccines decreases. Statewide, some 27 percent of African Americans have at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to 40 percent for white residents, according to state data.
And Detroit, where 78 percent of residents are African American, has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the state: About 33 percent among adults compared to 55 percent statewide.
“The virus is still wreaking havoc in the community,” said Dr. Debra Furr-Holden, an epidemiologist and professor of public health at Michigan State University.
It’s an abrupt change from last fall and winter, when African Americans made up less than 10 percent of deaths after being among the hardest-hit communities in the early months of the pandemic.