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|By Associated Press
The trend worries health experts who fear that Texas risks flying blind into the fall if it doesn't increase testing.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By Andrew LaCombe and Alissa Pietila
UpperMichigansSource.com has the coronavirus case count, deaths, and recoveries reported for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By Alissa Pietila
Six new recoveries were reported Friday, five in Dickinson County and one in Schoolcraft County.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 4:21 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Mayo Clinic researchers reported a strong hint that blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors helps other patients recover, but it’s not proof and some experts worry if, amid clamor for the treatment, they’ll ever get a clear answer.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 1:51 PM EDT
Twin beams of light representing the World Trade Center towers won’t be beamed into the sky during this year’s memorial of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 12:45 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
On average, the United States is still seeing about 1,000 deaths a day from the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The country has had more than 5 million confirmed cases and more than 167,000 deaths over the course of the pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 12:36 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Friday’s statement by Canada’s Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came a day after Mexico announced a similar measure for its border with the United States.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 11:11 AM EDT
|By TV6 News Team
MDHHS, Ford Motor Company, FEMA partner in keeping Michigan safe.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 9:49 AM EDT
Carlos Muniz was set to marry his fiancee, Grace Leimann, last month, but got sick and was hospitalized with COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 8:02 AM EDT
|By Andrew LaCombe
The university's School of Clinical Sciences will do research and surveillance testing on a group of students and a group of faculty and staff.
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Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 6:15 AM EDT
President Donald Trump is attacking Joe Biden for calling on governors to mandate all Americans wear masks.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 10:02 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Joe Biden is calling for a nationwide protective mask mandate over the next three months.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 8:08 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The NCAA will not conduct fall championship events — a move that does not affect major college football — because not enough schools are competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 7:30 PM EDT
|By Gray News staff
A South Carolina woman is searching for answers as to why her grandmother’s death certificate lists COVID-19 complications as a cause of death, when she says her grandmother was never tested for the virus and never showed any symptoms.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 5:55 PM EDT
|By Alissa Pietila
Michigan reported 1,121 new cases Thursday, so the state’s total cases are up to 90,392.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 5:49 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The Justice Department has seized millions of dollars from cryptocurrency accounts used by militant organizations based abroad, including the Islamic State group and al-Qaida.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 4:45 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday said he’s dropping a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta in a dispute over the city’s requirement to wear masks in public and other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 4:38 PM EDT
|By Alissa Pietila
As of Wednesday evening, the Newberry Correctional Facility has reported 36 total coronavirus cases.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 1:05 PM EDT
|By Gray News staff
All passengers over the age of 2 must wear a mask. There are no exceptions.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 12:11 PM EDT
|By Gray News staff
Health officials tested people who came in contact with the product, and all results were negative. Officials did not say the brand of the chicken product.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 10:14 AM EDT
|By Andrew LaCombe
The capacity of some teaching spaces is significantly smaller.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 10:04 AM EDT
Halloween-specific candies and packaging are already available in some grocery stores in the U.S.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 8:42 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
AMC Theatres, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 8:30 PM EDT
|By Associated Press and Hailey Tucker
The move came one day after the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced they would not be participating this fall.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:11 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The White House’s top negotiator is trying to revive stalled talks over coronavirus aid.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:02 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
These drugs are believed to last for a month or more and could give quick, temporary immunity to people at high risk of infection, such as health workers and housemates of someone with COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By Alissa Pietila
Out of the 47,401 diagnostic test results reported to the state from Upper Michigan, 1.32 percent have come back positive for COVID-19 as of August 12.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 3:20 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The Treasury Department says the U.S. budget deficit climbed to $2.81 trillion in the first 10 months of the budget year.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 1:27 PM EDT
Millions of Americans are expected to vote by mail this fall as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 10:52 AM EDT
|By TV6 News Team
The GLIAC Council of Presidents voted unanimously to take this action with the health and safety of student-athletes, coaches and community members as its top priority.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 8:19 AM EDT
|By Andrew LaCombe
The 20-29 year old age group has the most cases reported in August.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:21 AM EDT
|By staff
The vaccine is still in clinical trials and has not been approved by the FDA but is already being manufactured, so if it is approved, it can be rolled out quickly.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:20 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Health authorities in New Zealand were scrambling Wednesday to trace the source of a new outbreak of the coronavirus as the nation’s largest city went back into lockdown.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:20 AM EDT
During a time when many businesses are struggling to stay afloat, the last remaining Blockbuster store in Bend, Oregon, is defying the odds.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 7:07 AM EDT
A 17-year-old hostess at Chili’s was reportedly attacked by a group of more than 11 women after she told them they could not all sit together, per the restaurant’s COVID-19 social distancing policies.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 7:49 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The move comes six day after the conference that includes historic programs such as Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska and Penn State had released a revised conference-only schedule that it hoped would help it navigate a fall season with potential COVID-19 disruptions.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 5:08 PM EDT
|By TV6 News Team
“Understanding the Implications of the FFCRA” will bring the expertise of the attorneys of Miller Canfield to answer questions related to an employer’s obligation under the FFCRA legislation.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 4:53 PM EDT
|By Alissa Pietila
Out of the 45,446 diagnostic test results reported to the state from Upper Michigan, 1.33 percent have come back positive for COVID-19 as of August 11.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:38 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Putin emphasized that the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and has proven efficient, offering a lasting immunity from the coronavirus. However, scientists at home and abroad have been sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials could backfire.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:33 PM EDT
|By AARON MORRISON and ASHRAF KHALIL
A national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the District of Columbia.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:11 PM EDT
|By Gray News staff
In the study, scientists were looking for the masks that best contain the droplets that are created when people speak.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 2:12 PM EDT
|By TV6 News Team
CARES Act provides additional funding to public housing authorities.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 1:57 PM EDT
|By CNN Staff
Digital eye strain was an issue before COVID-19, but now it’s a bigger one, with some kids spending more time on their devices.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 11:29 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Anxious parents around the country are looking to schools that have already opened for signs of how it might go.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 7:04 AM EDT
|By NICK PERRY
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 4:28 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
With more than 60 million beneficiaries, Social Security is funded by a 12.4% payroll tax evenly divided between employees and employers. Deferral could mean that up to $100 billion in payments would be delayed.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 9:10 PM EDT
|By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Governors and state labor department officials around the country are scrambling to figure out if it is feasible to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order to partially extend enhanced unemployment insurance for millions of Americans struggling to find work in the pandemic-scarred economy.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 8:11 PM EDT
|By MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAUREN WEBER
Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases burned out, dozens of state and local public health officials around the country have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:45 PM EDT
|By Associated Press and LISA MASCARO
With Republicans again balking at big government bailouts, Democratic leaders are holding firm. They are using their leverage to force President Donald Trump into a politically risky standoff over help for millions of Americans.