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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2019, file photo, Ohio State cornerback Jeff Okudah get ready for a Michigan play during an NCAA college football game in Ann Arbor, Mich. If the Detroit Lions choose to keep the No. 3 pick overall in the draft, Okudah is expected to be available for the taking. The Ohio State star appears to be worth being the highest-drafted player at his position since one was selected from the same school two-plus decades ago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Lions might fill void with Ohio State CB Okudah in NFL draft

By LARRY LAGE - Associated Press

In this Jan. 11, 2019 photo, the Detroit skyline is seen from Windsor, Ont. Detroit's fiscal future faces a new daunting foe in the coronavirus. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, announced some layoffs, pay cuts for other employees and and a reduction in some services. He warned that Detroit could be subject to a return to state oversight if action isn't taken quickly. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Detroit facing fresh fiscal woes with coronavirus closures

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

In this image provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich., Monday, April 13, 2020. The governor said the state has tough days ahead in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, but a return to normalcy is &quot;on the horizon.&quot; (Michigan Office of the Governor via AP, Pool)

Detroit to see layoffs, pay cuts due virus-caused deficit

By COREY WILLIAMS and DAVID EGGERT and ED WHITE - Associated Press

Detroit Police Capt. Jevon Johnson talks with Lt. Pride Henry outside the TCF Center, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Detroit. Johnson, 44, was quarantined for a little less than week after developing a cough and being exposed to another officer who tested positive for the coronavirus. About 10 to 13 minutes after taking the Abbott Labs nasal swab test Johnson was told he didn't have COVID-19. &quot;That was a weight off my mind,&quot; the 21-year police veteran said. &quot;Our medical subunit was able to return me to work immediately.&quot; (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Fast virus tests quickly returning Detroit officers to work

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

An Emergency Alert from the Michigan Governors office is shown on a cellular phone in Detroit, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the Stay Home Safe order until April 30 to save lives from the new coronavirus COVID-19. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Michigan reports 205 new virus deaths, highest daily total

By ED WHITE and DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

In a photo from April 8, 2020, wooden hearts made by Tiffana and Tom Hoebeke are displayed at their farm in Wright Township, Mich. The hearts honor people in health care during the coronavirus pandemic. They add names to anyone who makes a request.(Justin Kollar/WOOD-TV via AP)

Michigan governor extends stay-at-home order through April

By DAVID EGGERT and ED WHITE - Associated Press

In this April 7, 2020, photo, Erica Harris, right, and her daughter Jordan, wear their protective masks as they walk back home after getting a lunch and homework from the child’s school on Chicago’s Southside in Chicago. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans

By KAT STAFFORD and MEGHAN HOYER and AARON MORRISON - Associated Press

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces the &quot;We Are Not Playing&quot; campaign during a press conference at Soldier Field, Monday morning, April 6, 2020, in Chicago. The city is launching a health campaign focused on the city's black and brown communities, following a media report highlighting the disproportionate number of black residents among those who have died of COVID-19 complications in the city. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Rate of deaths, illness among black residents alarms cities

By KATHLEEN FOODY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2002, file photo, Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Al Kaline is honored for his 50 years with the Tigers organization at Comerica Park in Detroit. Al Kaline, who spent his entire 22-season Hall of Fame career with the Detroit Tigers and was known affectionately as “Mr. Tiger,” has died. He was 85. John Morad, a friend of Kaline's, confirmed to The Associated Press that he died Monday, April 6, 2020, at his home in Michigan. (AP Photo/John F. Martin)

Beloved Tigers star, Hall of Famer Al Kaline dies at 85

By JIM IRWIN and NOAH TRISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 30, 1969, file photo, Detroit Tigers' Al Kaline has a baseball bat shouldered as he shares a moment with Washington Senators manager Ted Williams, in Detroit. (AP Photo/File)

Al Kaline dies at 85

By Jim Irwin and Noah Trister - Associated Press

In this image provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich., Monday, April 6, 2020. Whitmer said Detroit-area hospitals are running &quot;dangerously low&quot; on personal protection equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also reported an &quot;incredible surge&quot; in the number of unemployment claims and promised that people would get paid, despite computer woes and bureaucratic red tape. (Michigan Office of the Governor via AP)

Michigan jobless claims ahead of ‘19; virus cases at 17,221

By DAVID EGGERT and ED WHITE - Associated Press

Cars line up in the parking lot at a drive-thru food pantry at Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids, Thursday April 1, 2020. The National Guard helped distribute the food at the site which was run by Feeding America West Michigan. The pantry is one of many set up after the new coronavirus COVID-19 arrived in Michigan. (Neil Blake/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

Whitmer tells people with virus symptoms to stay home

By DAVID EGGERT and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020 photo, members of City Impact, a faith-based organization from Cedar Springs, sing and pray for residents and staff at Metron of Cedar Springs nursing home, in Cedar Springs, Mich. Administrators at Metron announced the nursing home has multiple residents and staff members who have tested positive for the coronavirus. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

Michigan virus cases clear 10,000; peak still weeks away

By DAVID EGGERT and COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

Interior view of the TCF Center, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in Detroit, built to accommodate an overflow of patients with the coronavirus. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction at the TCF Center on Tuesday to create a quarantined hospital setting with 1,000 beds as the pandemic spreads rapidly in the city. The Corps will adapt more than 250,000 square feet of the center on two separate floors for the additional hospital beds and medical personnel stations. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Michigan virus cases top 9,300; new ventilators put to work

By ED WHITE and DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

TCF Center in Detroit, is shown on Sunday, March 29, 2020. The federal government said it will create a 900-bed hospital for coronavirus victims inside the convention center. (AP Photo/Ed White)

Michigan officials plead for ventilators, people to run them

By DAVID EGGERT and ED WHITE - Associated Press

In this Dec. 27, 2019, photo, State Reps. Isaac Robinson and Cynthia A. Johnson, D-Detroit, protest with community members in Detroit over the expansion of a treatment center in Hamtramck. First-term Michigan State Rep. Robinson died Sunday, March 29, 2020, according to this mother, who said she suspects her son's death could be related to the coronavirus. He was 44. (Sarah Rahal/Detroit News via AP)

Michigan lawmaker killed by virus hailed as cheerful battler

By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 19, 2016 file photo, a demolition crew razes a dilapidated home in Detroit. Researchers at the University of Michigan say cost-savings and public safety benefits of swiftly demolishing dangerous vacant houses in Detroit could outweigh the risk of asbestos exposure to people in neighborhoods. A study of 25 emergency demolitions shows small to undetectable concentrations of asbestos. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP File)

Study: Little asbestos found after Detroit house demolitions

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

TCF Center in Detroit, is shown on Sunday, March 29, 2020. The federal government said it will create a 900-bed hospital for coronavirus victims inside the convention center. (AP Photo/Ed White)

Detroit convention center to become makeshift hospital

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

In this Dec. 27, 2019, photo, State Reps. Isaac Robinson and Cynthia A. Johnson, D-Detroit, protest with community members in Detroit over the expansion of a treatment center in Hamtramck. First-term Michigan State Rep. Robinson died Sunday, March 29, 2020, according to this mother, who said she suspects her son's death could be related to the coronavirus. He was 44. (Sarah Rahal/Detroit News via AP)

State Rep. Isaac Robinson dead at 44; mom suspects COVID-19

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In this image provided by Northwestern University Athletics, Northwestern senior associate athletic director for health, safety and performance Tory Lindley addresses the Wildcats’ football team after NCAA college football practice in Kenosha, Wis. Lindley is the president of the National Athletic Trainers Association, which has put together an app to help athletic trainers assist understaffed hospitals and health care systems during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Northwestern University Athletics via AP)

Athletic trainers step up: App aids overworked hospitals

By STEVE MEGARGEE - Associated Press