The state was investigating 991 outbreaks and “broad community spread,” Khaldun said. It was a week of horrid numbers, with Michigan leading the nation in new infections, hospitalizations and the percentage of people testing positive for the coronavirus.
“What's concerning,” Spectrum Chief Operating Officer Brian Brasser said in an interview, is “that our trajectory looks very, very similar to what it did in the first part of October.”
Which is why Spectrum was among those canceling some procedures.
“Any time we make a decision to defer procedures like this, it comes not lightly because we recognize that the risk that is associated with deferred care,” Brasser told the Free Press. “But we also need to make sure that we're providing good, safe and effective care and we recognize that with the spike of COVID inpatient activity and just a general high census overall, it was important for us to do that.”