Latest data on #COVID19 hospitalizations in #Michigan:

▪️952 on Tuesday, ↗️25% in a week
▪️60% are in outstate hospitals
▪️Outstate hospitalizations ↗️48% in a week
▪️Grand Rapids region ↗️51% in wk
▪️Confirmed & Suspected COVID hospitalizations ↗️18%, +31% in outstate hospitals On Tuesday, the number of Michigan residents with confirmed
.@crainsdetroit has interactive graphics detailing hospitalizations numbers for Southeast Michigan, outstate and combined, as well as positivity rates and the rolling 7-day new case average here (no paywall): crainsdetroit.com/coronavirus/co…
HAPPENING NOW: @GovWhitmer holding a press conference wearing a mask (first time, I think), raising alarms about the rising #COVID19 case counts.

She's reiterating public health code from DHHS that masks are still required inside public-facing businesses.
clickondetroit.com/health/good-he…
“This peak is higher than what we saw in April,” @GovWhitmer says. “Our numbers are climbing. We need to take this seriously."
Without naming @SenMikeShirkey, @GovWhitmer calls his push for herd immunity "inhumane" and a "dangerous idea."

"Let me be clear, my administration will continue to make decisions based on facts, based on evidence... and following the science, not denying it.
Gov. Whitmer signed a bill yesterday temporarily extending unemployment insurance eligibility from 20 weeks to 26 weeks. That extension expires Dec. 31.

She called on lawmakers to make the extension permanent.

crainsdetroit.com/government/whi…
.@DrKhaldun says Michigan has had 30,000+ confirmed cases of #COVID19 in past 30 days and 57% of those folks have been contacted for contact tracing. She emphasized the importance of people answering their phones and disclosing their close contacts.
Correction here: 57% of COVID-positive individuals had a contact tracing interview completed within 24 hours of testing positive.

77% of the 30,000 people who have tested positive for the virus in the past 30 days had been contacted for contact-tracing.

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20 Oct
AD WATCH: ⁦@ProgressMich⁩ has a new claiming Republican-nominated Supreme Court candidate Brock Swartzle was a “partisan operative at the center of a legislative sex scandal.”

I’m pretty sure Brock wasn’t a party to Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat’s extramarital affair.
This ad claim focuses on a lawsuit filed by Courser & Gamrat's whistleblowing ex-aides who sued the House, saying they told Swartzle they had “undeniable physical proof” Courser anonymously sent out emails smearing himself (ie. the controlled burn tape).
detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
Brock Swartzle was chief legal counsel when Courser & Gamrat's aides, Keith Allard & Ben Graham, came to him and then-House Chief of Staff Norm Saari about their concerns about working under the two reps while they were having an affair.

Swartzle is now a Court of Appeals judge.
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8 Oct
THEY PLOTTED ON CAPITOL GROUNDS: On June 18, some militia members charged today in a plot to kidnap @GovWhitmer met at a Second Amendment rally at the Capitol, the FBI says.

Lansing Pulse headline that day: "Protesters from the left and right mix peacefully at the Capitol"
STORY: Feds foil militia plot to kidnap Michigan @GovWhitmer from her Up North vacation home

DEVELOPING STORY...
crainsdetroit.com/government/fed… via @crainsdetroit
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2 Oct
WHOA.

Michigan Supreme Court rules against @GovWhitmer's use of 1945 emergency powers law in #COVID19 pandemic, says 145 law "is in violation of the Constitution of our state because it purports to delegate to the executive branch the legislative powers of state government..."
STORY: Michigan Supreme Court's ruling throws into doubt @GovWhitmer's continued use of the 1945 emergency powers law for issuing executive orders that she has used to restrict economic and human activity since March in an effort to protect public health.

crainsdetroit.com/government/mic…
"This is a great day for the people of Michigan," @MIGOPChair Laura Cox said in a statement about 4 GOP-nominated justice striking down the Democratic governor's public health emergency powers.

UPDATED STORY: crainsdetroit.com/government/mic…

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30 Sep
There's a lot of Michigan House TV video of state Rep. @BeauMattLaFave not wearing a mask during the 9/22 and 9/24 House Judiciary Committee meetings last week in both the Capitol and the House Office Building, within 8 days of getting a positive test for #COVID19. ImageImageImage
LaFave wore a mask for most of the 9/22 Judiciary Committee (top right), except when he spoke & asked questions of witnesses. I skimmed through the 9/24 hearing video and didn't see any mask use. At one point, he got up and walked out of the House Approps room for a little while. Image
Last Thursday, Rep. LaFave appears to have shouted his vote on a couple of bills in committee from the back of the House Appropriations Committee room. He's not shown on camera, but perhaps he was talking with someone.

Starts at 33:20-mark of this video:
house.mi.gov/SharedVideo/Pl…
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30 Sep
President Trump claims, without citing any evidence, that "we're weeks away from a vaccine" for #COVID19.

#Debates2020
Trump tries to hit Biden on H1N1 swine flu epidemic in 2009.

Biden counters 14,000 died in that pandemic during the Great Recession.

200,000 Americans have died of the novel coronavirus since February under Trump's watch.
Trump says he's spoken with Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies and claims they've could produce the #COVID19 vaccine "faster" than mid-summer 2021 as Trump's own advisers claim.
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27 Sep
Time Crunch: #Michigan's surge in absentee voting to test capacity of election workers

Clerks face a daunting task of delivering fast election results for 3 million-plus absentee ballots

My story in ⁦@crainsdetroit⁩’s monthly #CrainsForum: crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/t…
Grand Rapids firm develops service for tracking absentee ballots in the mail; Troy, Huntington Woods, Grand Rapids among 10 cities using it this fall

(No paywall)

crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/g… #CrainsForum @crainsdetroit
5 Republican clerks to Michigan’s GOP-controlled Legislature: One more day to process absentee ballots is not enough

cc: @LeeChatfield @SenMikeShirkey

crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/5…

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