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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 numbe...

Dr. Liam Sullivan an infectious disease specialist with Spectrum Health explains why you can still carry the virus even after being vaccinated.

By WMMN Jan 26, 2021 Dr. Liam Sullivan, Infectious Disease Physician, Spectrum Health, joined West Michigan's Morning News to talk about the new COVID-19 variants, what makes them different, and if the vaccines will protect against them.  

What Michiganders should know about new coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 Updated Jan 25, 2021; Posted Jan 23, 2021 This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus (yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink) cultured in the lab. (NIAID-RML via AP)AP Facebook Share A “super-spreader” strain of COVID-19 that has ravaged the United Kingdom is now in Michigan. So far, three cases of the variant known as B.1.1.7 have been confirmed among people associated with University of Michigan in Ann Arbo...

and last updated 2021-01-18 22:24:44-05 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Health officials in West Michigan are preparing for a new, more contagious strain of COVID-19. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Saturday it had identified the first case of “B.1.1.7” in Washtenaw County. “We’re watching it,” said Mercy Health St. Mary’s division chief of infectious disease Dr. Andrew Jameson. “We’re certainly not looking forward to it and would love to avoid it.” Jameson says it’s possible the new variant may already be in West Mic...