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ANN ARBOR - Infectious Disease Expert Fred Brown, who helped develop a test for HIV, said the COVID-19 lock down could last until August and even could impact fall sports, events, and more. https://youtu.be/ZES6iWOFRCA
ANN ARBOR - Shannon O'Hara has cobbled together 500 tailors in metro New York to sew washable hospital gowns to protect healthcare professionals from COVID-19. She's looking to connect with tailors nationwide to join her brigade. She's also looking for tailors to join her brigade in Michigan. https://youtu.be/9gvCOD7GmbU
LANSING –The Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Pure Michigan Business Connect program has launched a new grant program providing a total of $1 million in grants to Michigan’s small manufacturers looking to retool and produce critical health and human service supplies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. “Michigan has the manufacturing strength, innovation and determination to
ANN ARBOR - Dug Song, who sold in 2018 Duo Security to Cisco for $2.35 billion, has contributed $1 million to an emergency relief fund for small businesses in Washtenaw County impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The money was donated to the Washtenaw Small Business Emergency Relief Fund. https://www.washtenawsbf.com/ Contributions also came from Ann Arbor
ANN ARBOR - From the data available today, it will be unwise for us to “ease up” on social distancing before the end of May (earliest) across the entire United States or to stop social distancing until the end of August. If we ease up earlier than this, then the opportunity for a rebound of
TRAVERSE CITY - Matt Bulloch, CEO of Tent Craft, has switched production of his event tents to COVID-19 testing shelters for healthcare professionals. https://youtu.be/dkbQs0aGx6I
ANN ARBOR - Right now, health care workers at the University of Michigan’s hospitals and clinics have the gear they need to protect themselves and others as they care for patients with COVID-19. But with the number of COVID-19 patients rising daily, leaders at Michigan Medicine are asking for the community’s help in donating supplies
WASHINGTON DC - The $2.2 Trillion federal stimulus package will provide small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees) who promise not to fire employees during the crisis would have access to $367 billion worth of guaranteed loans from community banks through June 30 that would be forgiven if the business continues to pay workers
ONTARIO, Canada - A Canadian doctor has rigged up a ventilator with do-it-yourself mechanics to treat nine patients instead of one. Dr Alain Gauthier, an anesthetist at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital in Ontario, has a PhD in respiratory mechanics According to CBC News, the physician got the idea after watching YouTube videos created by two
MUNCIE, Indiana – Extreme social distancing occurring in the United States is more than sufficient to create a recession as mass layoffs cause unemployment to exceed 10.5 percent nationally, says a new report from Ball State University. Within 90 days, the economic downturn caused by governmental efforts to mitigate the novel coronavirus will cause unemployment
