Kristen Jordan Shamus and Christina Hall
Detroit Free Press
For the first time in nearly a year, visitor restrictions on nursing homes in Michigan are easing up, allowing families to see their loved ones in person again regardless of how much COVID-19 is spreading in the community, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday. We know that this virus has taken a disproportionate toll on our seniors and the isolation and the time apart has been taxing on everyone with loved ones in long-term care facilities, Whitmer said. Under the new guidelines, family members . will be able to go and visit their relatives in nursing homes after receiving a COVID-19 test.
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Macomb County man, 90, dies after COVID-19 vaccine but doctors say shots are safe
Kristen Jordan Shamus
Detroit Free Press
Daniel Thayne Simpson, a retired accountant from Chesterfield Township who served in the Navy during the Korean War, got his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 3.
The next day, Simpson, 90, was dead. He told my brother he was getting it and he had a sticker showing that he got it, William Simpson of Ann Arbor told the Free Press. But then, he stopped returning phone calls. We were assuming he felt tired or something and went to bed early and never woke up, William Simpson said. My brother Dan went over as he often does at 5 in the evening the next day. . He found my father dead.
A Michigan woman who says she conspired to have her husband killed to protect herself and her 7-year-old daughter from abuse is asking for clemency, her only chance at freedom from a life sentence in prison.
LuAnne Szenay says she endured violence at the hands of her husband for 12 years. In 1990, she hired two men to kill Timothy Szenay, believing that his death would be her only way out after police repeatedly dismissed her complaints of domestic abuse.
She now recognizes her thinking was “terrible” and “wrongful,” according to a commutation application that her daughter filed on her behalf earlier this month.
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The massive coronavirus vaccination effort to immunize Michigan s roughly 600,000 health care workers and eventually the entire population is in high gear as Pfizer s vaccine candidate undergoes a federal hearing Thursday to review whether it can be safely injected into the arms of millions of Americans.
In the scramble to stop a pandemic that s killed 288,000 people in the U.S. and 10,138 in Michigan, some metro Detroit hospital systems told the Free Press this week that they re mobilizing the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history with so many unknowns that, in some ways, it s like they re flying in the dark.
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