COVID-19 Coverage
The latest stories from the Michigan Health and the Michigan Health Lab on the coronavirus outbreak.

This article was updated on February 16, 2021.
Editor’s note: Information on the COVID-19 crisis is constantly changing. For the latest numbers and updates, keep checking the CDC’s website. For the most up-to-date information from Michigan Medicine, visit the hospital's Coronavirus (COVID-19) webpage.
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COVID-19 advice from experts:
- Your Smartphone Can Help Fight COVID. Here’s How.
- 10 Pandemic Tips for Older Adults (and the People Who Love Them)
- A Caregiver Check-In
- Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
- 10 Expert COVID-19 Tips to Follow in 2021
- What Do New SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Mean?
- COVID-19 Variants: What Do New Mutations to SARS-CoV-2 Mean?
- It’s Time To Make the Most of Masks. Here’s 11 Ways To Do It
- From Pandemic to Purpose
- How to Search for COVID-19 Information Online
- The First Vaccines for COVID-19: What We Know So Far
- How to Protect Your Mental and Physical Health This Holiday Season
- 4 Mask Myths That Put You at Risk
- 4 Strategies for Staying Healthy in a Quarantined World
- 5 Ways to Reduce Hearing Damage
- 5 Ways to Manage Your Mental Health During COVID-19
- 6 Ways to Relieve Your Work from Home Fatigue
- 14 Things to Do If Someone You Live With Has COVID-19
- Cooking at Home While Social Distancing
- Coping and Hoping: Mental Health Tips for Trying Times
- Don’t Ignore a Heart Attack, Even During a Pandemic
- Everyone vs. COVID-19: How You Can Help Science Make Progress
- Fear Can Spread From Person to Person Faster Than the Coronavirus
- Flattening the Curve for COVID-19: What Does It Mean and How Can You Help?
- Feeling Helpless About the Coronavirus? 11 Things You Can Do
- Feeling Stressed or Down in a World with COVID? Try This Writing Tool
- Feeling Helpless as the Pandemic Continues? 26 Things You Can Do to Help
- Hail to the Handwashers! A Musical Guide to Handwashing
- How to Keep COVID-19 From Invading Your “Pod” – and How to Stay Safe if It Does
- How to Care for Someone with COVID-19
- How to Have a Safe Holiday Season During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- How to Prepare for COVID-19
- How the Timing of Light Exposure Could Be Affecting Your Health
- Home Workspace Causing Back and Neck Pain? Try This
- Is it Safe to Travel in the Age of COVID-19?
- Is Stress from COVID-19 Upsetting Your Stomach? 7 Self Comfort Tips to Try
- Need to Get Out of the House? Give Blood – It’s Needed More Than Ever
- Pandemic Hitting You in the Wallet? How to Find Health Coverage or Low-Cost Medical Help
- Rehabilitation Care is Needed for Many COVID-19 Patients
- Should We Worry About COVID-19 Reinfection?
- Staying in Motion While Staying Put
- Staying Summer Safe During the Pandemic
- The COVID-19 Curve has Unflattened Fast. Now What?
- The Curve is Fattening, Not Flattening. What Can We Do?
- Using Music in Times of Anxiety
- Viruses Live on Doorknobs and Phones and Can Get You Sick – Smart Cleaning and Good Habits Can Help Protect You
- Vaccine Q&A: From Flu to COVID-19, Everything You Need to Know
- Why You Shouldn’t Delay Emergency Care During COVID-19
- Why You Should Continue Routine Cancer Screenings During COVID-19
- With the COVID-19 Curve Flattening, It's Time to Prevent a Second Peak
- Yes, You Should Wear a Mask. Here’s How and Why
COVID-19 background and past pandemics:
- 12 Things Science Taught Us About COVID-19 This Past Year
- Why Do Contagious Diseases Evade Eradication?
- 100 Years of Stopping Contagion with Science
- COVID-19 Through the Lens of Basic Science
- How Quickly Does Coronavirus Spread?
- How Scientists Quantify the Intensity of an Outbreak Like COVID-19
- Lessons From the 1918 Pandemic: A U.S. City’s Past May Hold Clues
- Mask Resistance During a Pandemic Isn’t New – in 1918 Many Americans Were ‘Slackers’
- The 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Should You Be Worried?
- Updated Information on COVID-19: What Can You Do to Protect Against Coronavirus
COVID-19 and medical professionals:
- Applying Extended Reality Technologies to Rounds
- COVID-19 Becomes Focus of Medical Student’s CNN Internship
- Should Medical Residency Interviews Be Capped?
- How to Make Sure People Get the Second Dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine
- COVID-19 Deaths Really Are Different. But Best Practices for ICU Care Should Still Apply
- Anti-Racism and Dr. Susan Moore’s Legacy
- New Guides Offer Advice and Wisdom from COVID-19 Patients and Caregivers
- Primary Care in a Pandemic: Spotting Mental Health Needs During COVID and More
- Best Practices for Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with ARDS, COVID-19
- Should Medical Residency Interviews Be Capped?
- As More Doctors Get Drafted for COVID-19 Inpatient Care, a Trusted Reference Becomes Free
- During Pandemic, Medical Students Volunteer to Ensure No One Dies Alone
- Emergency Departments Across Michigan Collaborate on COVID-19 Response
- Health Care Workers Struggled With Mood, Sleep in First Months of COVID-19 Pandemic
- How the Old-Fashioned Telephone Could Become A New Way for Some to See Their Doctor
- How to Improve the Surgery Backlog During COVID-19
- Is COVID-19 Widening the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine?
- I'm a Family Doctor Fighting Against Fear and Struggling With Distancing While Trying to Keep My Patients Healthy
- Hospitals Can’t Get Back to Normal Without More Blood. Here Are 7 Ways You Can Help
- Outside Looking In: Hospital Visitor Rules Vary During Pandemic
- New Report Details Strategies for COVID-19 Critical Care Surge
- Nursing Homes Prepared for Pandemics, but COVID-19 Reveals Gaps
- Please Don’t (Need to) Use My Work
- Pivoting Critical Care Research to Help with the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Proactivity and Partnership Pay Off for Nursing Homes in a Pandemic
- Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator
- Redesigning Prenatal Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Repurposed Industrial Respirator Could Free Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients
- Switching Gears at High Speed for Hospital COVID-19 Care
- The COVID-19 Heroes You Haven’t Met Yet: Behind the Scenes of a Pandemic
- Which Operations Can Restart First? New Guide Helps Hospitals Decide
- With COVID-19, Applying for Residency Could Look Different for Aspiring Doctors
- What Can Hospitals Do to Prepare for COVID-19 Cases?
COVID-19 and medical conditions:
- Call for Health Care Providers to Advocate for Disability Rights During COVID-19
- 5 Reasons to Embrace At-Home Cardiac Rehab
- Adapting Common Fall Sports for People with Disabilities
- App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic
- Are Organ Transplant Recipients at Greater Risk of Death from COVID-19?
- African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes, Kidney Disease at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization
- Cardiac Rehab Motivation in the Midst of COVID-19
- Cancer vs. COVID: When a Pandemic Upended Cancer Care
- Getting Through a Pandemic When You Have a Mental Health Condition
- How Should Radiation Oncologists Manage Prostate Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- Weighing Risks and Benefits for Glaucoma Patients During COVID-19
- What to Know About COVID-19 if You Have Diabetes
COVID-19-related research:
- Cold is Gold for COVID-19 Scientists
- Is it Safe to Perform CPR During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- Indoors and Outdoors, COVID-19 Reveals Unequal Access
- Subset of COVID-19 Patients Have Increased Bleeding Risk
- Are Women Physicians Fairly Represented in the COVID-19 News Cycle?
- COVID Forced Psychiatric Care Online, and Many Patients Want It to Stay There, Study Finds
- 45% of Adults Over 65 Lack Online Medical Accounts, Which Could Affect COVID-19 Vaccination
- County by County, Study Shows Social Inequality in COVID-19’s Toll
- Racially Biased Oxygen Readings Could Be Putting Patients at Risk
- Concern About Loved Ones Might Motivate People to Mask Up and Get Vaccine
- COVID-19 Found in The Cornea: Are Transplants a Transmission Risk?
- From the Heart: Study Shows Impact of Social Media Appeals from COVID-19 Frontliners
- Similar Factors Cause Health Disparities in Cancer, COVID-19
- Using Machine Learning to Predict Which COVID-19 Patients Will Get Worse
- First 10 Days After Leaving Hospital Carry High Risk for COVID-19 Patients
- Many Families Unwilling to Skip Thanksgiving Gatherings During COVID-19
- Life After COVID-19 Hospitalization: Major Lasting Effects on Health, Work and More
- Are Digestive Issues a Symptom of COVID-19?
- COVID-19 Care is (Mostly) Free to Patients. Should Other Vital Care Be Too?
- Cardiac Arrest, Poor Survival Rates Common in Sickest Patients with COVID-19
- Discovering the Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells That Attract and Feed COVID-19
- Dying Alone During a Pandemic
- Even Before COVID-19, Many Adults Lacked Stable Food Supply
- Higher Levels of NETs in Blood Associated with More Severe COVID-19
- How Does COVID-19 Appear in the Lungs?
- Leveraging Prostate Cancer Research Against COVID-19
- Many Could Face Sky-High Surprise Bills from Air Ambulance Flights
- New Cause of COVID-19 Blood Clots Identified
- Real-Time Overdose Tracking Helps Show COVID-19’s Effects
- Telehealth Visits Skyrocket for Older Adults, but Concerns and Barriers Remain
- Too Many COVID-19 Patients Get Unneeded “Just in Case” Antibiotics
- What the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reveals
COVID-19 vaccines, therapies, drugs and testing:
- What Happens After You Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
- Should Pregnant and Breastfeeding Patients Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
- Not Sure About the COVID-19 Vaccine? Get the Facts, Then Decide
- The First Vaccines for COVID-19: What We Know So Far
- Prostate Cancer Regulator Plays Role in COVID-19, Providing a Promising Treatment Lead
- COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers Explain Why They Signed Up
- COVID-19 Therapies: Where Are We?
- Over Half of Adults Over 50 Say They’ll Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19, but Many Will Want To Wait
- COVID-19: Behind the Scenes of Testing
- Chloroquine, Ibuprofen and Beyond: Doctors Discuss Latest Treatments, and Treatment Rumors, For COVID-19
- Drug That Calms ‘Cytokine Storm’ Associated with 45% Lower Risk of Dying among COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators
- Exploring a New Weapon Against COVID-19 Cytokine Storm
- ECMO: Last-Resort Life Support Option Helped Majority of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Survive, Global Study Shows
- Questions and Answers About COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials
- Rates of Pulmonary Complications Drastically Reduced with Newer Drug
- The Top 5 COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Explained
- The Pandemic Fight Over Plaquenil
- Two New Devices Protect Health Care Workers, Help Patients During COVID-19
- Testing the Deceased Could Provide Additional Surveillance Methods During Pandemic
- When Ventilators Don’t Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might
- Your ACE Inhibitor or ARB Medication: Is There a COVID-19 Connection?
COVID-19, kids and teens:
- Returning to In-Person School During COVID-19
- Screen Time, Emotional Health Among Parents’ Top Concerns for Kids in Pandemic
- Kids, Sports and COVID-19: 5 Steps for Parents to Follow
- 1 in 3 Parents Plan to Skip Flu Shots for Their Kids During COVID-19 Pandemic
- 5 Ways to Have a Safe Halloween During COVID-19
- 6 Ways to Support Children with Autism During the Pandemic
- 8 Ways to Help Teens Cope with Social Distancing Blues
- Coronavirus, Kids and School Closings
- How to Talk to Your Kids About COVID-19
- How to Prevent 7 Common Pediatric Injuries
- How to Support Children’s Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning
- Helping Your Kids Overcome Stress-Related Sleep Disruption
- Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions
- Stuck at Home? 6 Ways to Keep Your Kids Healthy and Happy
- Social Distancing with Kids
- Thrive With Your Family: Returning to “Normal”
- Thrive With Your Family: Having a Baby During a Pandemic
- Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids with Special Needs and Preventing Sibling Fights
- Thrive With Your Family: Teens and the Pandemic
- Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids With Chronic Diseases During COVID-19
- Thrive with Your Family: Processing Change
- Thrive with Your Family: Parental Self-Care, COVID-19 Anxiety and Managing Screen Time
- What Do Teens and Young Adults Need to Get Through the Pandemic? Survey Gives Insights
- Why the Relationship Between Kids and the Spread of COVID Remains Unclear
- What to Expect at Your Next Pediatric Appointment
COVID-19 patient stories:
- Surgery Team Keeps Fighting to Save Veteran
- Liver Transplant Recipient Fights Off COVID-19
- Hospitalized Kids Enjoy Gaming Diversions Thanks to U-M Football Legends
- Giving Back After COVID-19
- 'A New Take on Life' After Recovering from COVID-19
- Avoiding Crowds is Nothing New for 10-Year-Old with Bone Marrow Disease
- Celebrating 2020’s Little Victors Graduates
- Couple Welcomes New Baby in Hospital Driveway
- Cardiac Rehab at Home Helps Patient During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Conquering COVID-19: Michigan Medicine’s First Patient Shares His Story
- How to Support Children’s Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning
- Getting Injured, and Getting Care, During a Pandemic
- One Nurse’s Journey: Surviving COVID-19, Facing a Long Road to Recovery
- Moms on the Frontlines
- Mother’s Day Wishes for 2020
- Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions
- Self-Isolation: New to Us, Common for Cancer Patients
- Treating a Broken Bone During a Pandemic
- Treating One of Their Own: COVID-19 Breaks Myth of Invincibility for Hospital Doctors
- Teen Athlete Undergoes Brain Surgery During Pandemic
- Waiting to Dive Back In
- When a Pandemic Hits, But So Does a Heart Infection