Gretchen Whitmer appeals to out-of-state and retired health-care workers to "volunteer to help the residents of our state fight." Though the border is closed to non-essential travel, it remains open to trade and to the nearly 1,500 to 2,000 health-care workers who cross over each day. Both mayors were happy with the current precautions for health-care workers crossing the U.S.-Canada border for work. "We don't want to take those critical health-care workers away from their jobs — nobody would want that," said Ahmed. Health-care workers battling virus in MichiganNurse practitioner Danielle Bastien is one of 950 Canadian employees at Henry Ford Healthcare in Detroit.

Source: CBC News March 31, 2020 20:37 UTC