COVID-19 in Michigan is a runaway train with restrictions - so why isn t Florida and Texas?
By Jack Nissen
DETROIT - As Michigan leads the nation in COVID-19 cases - despite restrictions and mandates - states that don t have them, including Texas and Florida, are seeing significantly lower rates of infection.
Compared to the Great Lakes State, it looks like an entirely different year down south. Texas has completely lifted its mask mandate while Florida has removed occupancy restrictions on its businesses. Meanwhile, in Michigan, masks are still required in restaurants and schools while outdoor stadiums can only seat 20% capacity.
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Water crisis took toll on Flint adults’ physical, mental health
Since state austerity policies initiated a potable water crisis seven years ago in Flint, Michigan, public health monitoring has focused on potential developmental deficits associated with lead exposure in adolescents or fetuses exposed in utero.
New research from Cornell and the University of Michigan offers the first comprehensive evidence that the city’s adult residents suffered a range of adverse physical and mental health symptoms potentially linked to the crisis in the years during and following it, with Black residents affected disproportionately.
In a survey of more than 300 residents, 10% reported having been diagnosed by a clinician with elevated blood lead levels – well above national averages – after a state-appointed city manager, as part of a cost-saving measure, switched the city’s water source to one that became contaminated with lead and harmful bacteria on April 25, 2014.