GRAND RAPIDS—Officials at Priority Health will provide financial support to all large, fully funded active employer groups amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The company plans to offer premium credits to employer groups in their February 2021 invoices. Priority Health previously announced in May its plans to return any revenue above the company’s 10 percent administrative
ANN ARBOR - Residents of Detroit, Inkster, Flint and Washtenaw County will soon benefit from expanded free Wi-Fi access at more than 50 community locations across S.E. Michigan. The effort, part of Merit Network’s Michigan Moonshot initiative, was supported by contributions from the Toyota USA Foundation and Cisco. Washtenaw Intermediate School District and Merit Network
LANSING - Last week, Pfizer announced it has a Coronavirus vaccine with a reported 90% efficacy. Shortly following, Moderna announced their vaccine has similar efficacy at 95%. Though they estimate March or April 2021 before it’s widely available, it is clear that the government will be encouraging everyone to vaccinate. Due to being in certain
ANN ARBOR - Epidemiologist Fred Brown will be given the entire hour Monday at 2 pm on Facebook live to discuss the safety issues with the two primary COVID-19 vaccines that seek emergency approval by the FDA. He will also make a case for large groups of people not to gather indoors for Thanksgiving this
ANN ARBOR - Fred Brown, our epidemiologist, discusses the two COVID-19 vaccine candidates that have been introduced in the past week. The Moderna Therapeutics candidate may be able to get into mass production faster than the candidate developed by Pfizer, he said. https://youtu.be/TtFbEz0284M Trained as a medicinal biochemist, Fred has been on the discovery, development
ANN ARBOR - Fred Brown, an epidemiologist who works with states, nations and transition teams, evauluates not only the Pfizer vaccine announced earlier in November, but also 170 plus other vaccines in development. He remains optimistic high risks Americans will be able to get their shots in January. Brown has been working with a number
ANN ARBOR - On MITechTV Monday Nov. 16 at 2 pm, Amanda Lewan the co-founder of Bamboo Detroit co-working space in Detroit, will talk about her newest location under development in Royal Oak. At 2:15 Rachel Konrad, former Detroit Free Press auto writer, is now the head of worldwide communications for Impossible Foods, a plant-based
NEW YORK - With remote work becoming the new normal for many, more companies are now willing to not only hire remote workers, but to hire them from anywhere. More than one third say they are willing to hire 100 percent remote workers anywhere in the US or internationally. Conducted by The Conference Board in
HOLLAND—Addalingua LLC announced it will debut on Dec. 1 a new series of dual language education products designed for programs outside schools. The Spanish language frameworks for grades K-2 and accompanying self-paced training modules include language targets, mini-lessons, student tools, and “how-to” videos to help dual language and immersion teachers balance language and content-area instruction more effectively. Officials
LANSING - The state of Michigan has developed a free exposure notification app to for COVID-19 tracing called MI COVID Alert. The anonymous, no cost and voluntary app, piloted in Ingham County and on the campus of Michigan State University last month, lets users know whether they may have recently been exposed to COVID-19. Users
