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Spartan Newsroom - News and information from student journalists at the Michigan State University School of Journalism Spartan Newsroom (https://news.jrn.msu.edu/) Senior living homes implement measures to protect residents By Sophia Lada, Gia Mariano, Lexie Soro, Marsalis Brockman | April 22, 2020 Signs like this are posted all around Rose Senior Living in Novi. Photo: Sophia LadaIn the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials and senior center care workers in the Midwest are implementing new policies and activities to best protect older adults considered at-risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19.Approximately two and a half million older adults live in assisted living or nursing homes in the U.S., according to The National Center for Biotechnology Information. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 776,093 cases in the U.S., resulting in 41,758 deaths, among those cases up to 11% of senior citizens have lost their life to the virus. Hospitals are taking specific precautions on older adult patients, making sure they are as safe as possible. Detroit Catholic LGBTQ group grapples with isolation beyond COVID-19 As Detroiters self-isolate to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Archdiocese of Detroit has isolated a longstanding LGBT Catholic advocacy organization, ordering it off Catholic grounds. Bishop Gerard Battersby wrote a letter which was sent to all diocesan clergy on March 9 forbidding Dignity/Detroit gathering on archdiocesan grounds. “Dignity/Detroit has long operated its ministry in the Archdiocese of Detroit while rejecting some of the church’s teachings on sexual morality,” Battersby wrote. COVID-19 forces restaurants to rethink business model Michigan restaurants don’t look as they used to before COVID-19. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order leaves restaurants with only one option to continue the business, and that is through carry-out orders.Without customers at their tables, hundreds of restaurants across the state have placed their employees on furlough. For the remaining few, hours have been shortened. Cera PowellProtesters march down Capitol Avenue for justice for the murder of George Floyd and police reform on Sunday, March 31. Sharron Reed-Davis wants the protest in Lansing and around the country to continue. Lansing protests start conversation with citizens, police In Michigan, all eyes are on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to see how she responds to the COVID-19 outbreak. But when it comes to searching for an end to the pandemic, it’s local governments that are on the front lines, said Mason Mayor Russell Whipple.“This problem will not be solved by the federal government, or the state government, or even the county government,” he said. “It’s going to be solved by local governments, because local governments are going to be the ones that have to actually deal with the day-to-day. We take directions from the state and county health departments. But we’re the ones that make it happen.” Explore:Group works to get out Asian-American voteMichigan Municipal Managers work to make way for female leadersComplete Coverage Andrew RothSecretary of State Jocelyn Benson warns that Michigan's election could be under a national spotlight in November. East Lansing's November 2019 election was a small preview.

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