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The Metro: Connecting with community is important, but it’s gotten a lot harder

David Leins, Trevor McConico, The Metro February 27, 2025

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Loneliness in America is bad and getting worse. In recent decades,...

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Michigan Supreme Court refuses association’s COVID case

Rick Pluta November 19, 2024

The Michigan Supreme Court has refused to hear a case filed by a business group that wants the state to...

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MichMash: Why Michigan public school reading scores are at a 10-year low

Hernz Laguerre September 6, 2024

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan public school reading scores have been taking a hit. MichMash host, Cheyna Roth, and Gongwer...

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The Michigan Hall of Justice.
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Michigan Supreme Court sides with state in COVID-19 shutdown cases

Colin Jackson September 3, 2024

The Michigan Supreme Court declined to take up a group of cases involving the state’s COVID-19 shutdown orders Friday. That choice...

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Created Equal: How to achieve work-life balance as a mom after social media, COVID

Cary Junior II May 9, 2024

What does motherhood look like in 2024? In anticipation of Mother’s Day this Sunday, Dr. Katheryn Maguire, a professor of...

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Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, visited a vaccine clinic in Detroit on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, to encourage Michiganders to protect themselves against respiratory illnesses.
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CDC director urges Michiganders to get vaccinated amid rising COVID, RSV cases

Russ McNamara, Jenny Sherman December 7, 2023

The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was in Detroit on Thursday to urge people to get...

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Detroit Evening Report: Michigan health department recommends getting updated COVID vaccine

Nargis Rahman September 18, 2023

Michigan's state health department is recommending that people get the updated COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older for...

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A new COVID-19 variant has been found in Washtenaw County. How dangerous is it?

Quinn Klinefelter August 28, 2023

Federal health officials are tracking a new variant of COVID-19 that could possibly spread rapidly and not be stopped by...

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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
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Detroit Today: How the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people socialize

Detroit Today August 23, 2023

It’s been a while since people were social distancing and wearing masks. Are we back to normal? What does "normal"...

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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
  • Racial Attitudes

Detroit Today: Black Americans have lower life expectancies than others

Detroit Today June 13, 2023

Through the COVID-19 pandemic up to March 2021, Black Americans died at 1.4 times the rate of white Americans. Overall,...

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  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
  • Public Safety

The effects of long-haul COVID and the remedies

Detroit Today, Sam Corey February 6, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting our lives for nearly three years now. But the last major spike in hospitalizations...

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  • MichMash
  • Politics, Government & Finance

MichMash: Looking back on Michigan’s COVID-19 response and more stories from 2022

John Filbrandt January 2, 2023

 2022 may be in the rearview mirror, but COVID-19 isn't. To wrap up the year, Cheyna Roth and the...

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