Detroit

Here’s how all 83 Michigan counties are divided into regions in Gov. Whitmer’s reopening plan“The Detroit Region has increased to the medium-high risk level based on case rate and percent positivity increases over three weeks,” the state says on its MI Safe Start map.Gov. Whitmer on reopening Michigan: ‘If we have to move back, we’re…

CLOSEAs warm summer days descend upon metro Detroit, you can forgot about taking a cool dip in the municipal pool or even at the one operated by your neighborhood association. Under orders issued Thursday by local health departments, all licensed public and private swimming pools in metro Detroit are to remain closed until further notice because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Health…

Everything about the death of James Beavers was complicated, beginning with the fact that no one expected him to die.The 55-year-old Detroit husband, father and grandfather had a bad cough from what seemed to be a cold, that's true. And he'd had health problems for years — congestive heart failure, diabetes, a history of pneumonia and was…

CLOSEIt sounds like a crappy job, but it just might help save lives.If you have the coronavirus, it is passing right through you, researchers confirm, and, with every flush, it's going into the sewer. As a result, Detroit public officials now hope by collecting sewage samples, they can track and predict outbreaks.Officials announced Monday they are refocusing a two-year-old…

A Detroit family is mourning a man they say was turned away from getting tested for the coronavirus three times. "He was begging for his life, but no one would help him at all. Like they just kept sending him away," said Keith Gambrell, the stepson of 56-year-old Gary Fowler. Gambrell said he was concerned…