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John Forté’s cause of death has been determined by state medical examiners as complications from influenza A. John Forté left behind months of mystery surrounding his sudden passing, but the state medical examiner’s office finally revealed what took the Grammy-nominated producer from the world.

For the first time since 2019, COVID-19 didn’t crack Michigan’s leading cause of death list in 2024. Only heart disease and cancer were responsible for more resident deaths in 2020 and 2021 than COVID, before it dropped to No. 4 in 2022 and No. 9 in 2023.