What Michiganders should know about new coronavirus variant B.1.1.7
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
Posted Jan 23, 2021
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus (yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink) cultured in the lab. (NIAID-RML via AP)AP
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A “super-spreader” strain of COVID-19 that has ravaged the United Kingdom is now in Michigan.
So far, three cases of the variant known as B.1.1.7 have been confirmed among people associated with University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
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Promedica is appealing a court ruling declaring it wrongfully terminated insurance contracts with rival McLaren Health Care.
A federal judge had issued a preliminary injunction barring Promedica from terminating its insurance contracts with St. Luke s Hospital in the Toledo, Ohio, area in late December. Judge Jack Zouhary of the Northern District of Ohio concluded the contracts were wrongfully terminated and barred Promedica s insurance arm, Paramount, from canceling them.
Zouhary noted that the Supreme Court has previously found that if a company is attempting to exclude the rivals on some basis other than efficiency, it is fair to characterize its behavior as predatory. So too here.
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Michigan was injected with a shot of hope Monday, when after months of witnessing pain and suffering brought by a deadly virus, a Grand Rapids doctor rolled up his sleeve to become the first person in the state to get the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine.
At 12:04 p.m., Dr. Marc McClelland, a pulmonologist at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, took a shot to the arm with the highly anticipated Pfizer coronavirus vaccine that won federal emergency-use approval just one day earlier.
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