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Michigan was warned about the British COVID-19 variant, but many ignored it
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Michigan was warned about British COVID-19 variant, but many ignored it
Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, and Mohar Chatterjee, Derek Kravitz and Bianca Fortis, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
Local health departments across Michigan started sounding the alarm months ago.
A deadlier coronavirus variant that had first ravaged Britain was now here in metro Detroit, at the University of Michigan, a state prison in Ionia and rural counties in the Thumb region with doctors, nurses and public health officials fully aware.
And yet Michiganders from state prison employees to small business owners and local officials to parents of high school athletes ignored medical experts repeated warnings about the highly infectious variant. They rebuffed stay-in-place recommendations, allowed crowded events to occur and turned a blind eye to defiant behavior, according to
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This story was produced in collaboration with THE CITY and Columbia Journalism School’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, as part of “
,” THE CITY’s ongoing collaborative project to remember every New Yorker killed by Covid-19. The reporters on this story from THE CITY and Stabile are: Haidee Chu, Jacob Geanous, Téa Kvetenadze, Cassidy Jensen, Josh Merchant, Savannah Tryens-Fernandes, and Megan Zerez.
Hart Island, a small piece of land off the Bronx in New York City, resurfaced in national headlines in April 2020, when New York City became the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US. News footage of the island’s cemetery showed trenches being filled with pine coffins, sending shockwaves around the world. But these mass burials taking place during the pandemic are just the most recent in Hart Island’s long history.
De Blasio Calls for ‘Full Accounting’ of NYC Inmates Who Died of COVID after Testing Positive in Jail
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Mayor Bill de Blasio committed Wednesday to a “full accounting” of people who died of COVID-19 after contracting the virus in city jails.
His pledge followed an investigation by Columbia Journalism School’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and THE CITY that identified three men who contracted the virus in local lockups but did not get counted in the Department of Correction’s official death tally.
Corrections Commissioner Cynthia Brann has highlighted that “only three” people have died in city jails during the pandemic. The new findings bring the death toll to at least six.
NYC Jail-Related COVID Fatalities at Least Double Official Three Who Died in Custody
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