Health Care Law Blog
On March 29, Governor Whitmer signed two emergency executive orders in response to the urgent need for help from as many health care professionals as possible in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Current Context
The novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19”), now classified as a full blown pandemic by the World Health Organization, is projected to continue spreading across Michigan and the United States over the next few months. In less than a month, the global number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has tripled from about 75,000 cases on February 20, 2020, to more than a quarter million cases as of Friday, March 20.