Stryker announces new hospital beds to aid healthcare facilities during COVID-19 pandemic
The emergency relief beds can accommodate patients with respiratory issues including ventilated patients.
United Way Disaster Fund Targets The Pandemic (WMUK)
Fundraising for the fund is open-ended because the COVID-19 crisis is too.
Open breweries list added to Open for Business
A new take-out list has been added to our section “Open for Business.” Brewery excursion company West Michigan Beer Tours has catalogued the breweries in town offering delivery and take out of their beer and food. Find our food listings here.
Kalamazoo couple launches online wine shop so you don’t have to be stuck without a bottle (Second Wave)
The enterprising couple that owns The Stamped Robin wine and cocktail lounge in downtown Kalamazoo is sure that a bottle of wine, delivered to your door, would make spending more time at home – as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the CDC suggests – a little more enjoyable. Read more from Second Wave.
Yard waste pick-up canceled in Kalamazoo amid coronavirus outbreak (MLive)
The change will impact the city of Kalamazoo’s April Spring Clean Up and brush programs.
Critics blast WMU over treatment of employees during coronavirus closure (MLive)
Employees considered non-essential were sent home, on paid leave to keep their income, at least temporarily.
Mask-makers in Kalamazoo spend their days sewing to protect others (MLive)
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Michigan, there has been a shortage of personal protective equipment, including masks.
Kalamazoo Metro Transit to suspend regular bus service during COVID-19 pandemic (WWMT)
Buses were sanitized frequently, officials felt that further measures were needed to protect the public.
Kalamazoo YMCA will donate 1,000 free meals daily during coronavirus emergency (MLive)
It’s meant as a supplement to the free meals already provided to students by the Kalamazoo Public Schools.
Kalamazoo companies partner to make face shields for local hospitals (WWMT)
Southwest Michigan First connected Fabri-Kal, Schupan and Sons, and Tekna Inc., to Bronson Hospital.
