U-M: Michigan’s strict public health measures likely saved lives during holidays
Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
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ANN ARBOR – Researchers at the University of Michigan said that the state’s “Pause to Save Lives” mandate in mid-November likely saved thousands of lives during the holiday season.
According to preliminary findings by the School of Public Health, the measures over Thanksgiving and Christmas might have prevented more than 100,000 cases of COVID-19 across the state.
“Our modeling suggests that the state’s social distancing measures, although challenging for Michiganders, prevented illness and deaths, providing some relief to our already stretched health care system,” associate professor Marisa Eisenberg, who has been working with the state throughout the pandemic COVID-19 modeling and data analysis, said in a statement.
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Strict public health measures during holidays likely saved lives
Increased social distance measures over Thanksgiving and Christmas following the Pause to Save Lives might have prevented more than 100,000 coronavirus cases in Michigan-potentially avoiding thousands of deaths during the holiday season, according to preliminary findings by the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
“Our modeling suggests that the state’s social distancing measures, although challenging for Michiganders, prevented illness and deaths, providing some relief to our already stretched health care system,” said associate professor Marisa Eisenberg, who has been working with the state of Michigan since the beginning of the pandemic to provide data analysis and modeling related to COVID-19.
Pause to Save Lives may have prevented thousands of deaths in Michigan, U-M researchers say
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Coronavirus Disease 2019
and last updated 2021-01-28 14:55:06-05
(WXYZ) â Increased COVID-19 restrictions over the holidays after the Pause to Save Lives might have prevented more than 100,000 COVID-19 cases in Michigan, according to preliminary findings by the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Researchers said the measure potentially avoided thousands of deaths.
âOur modeling suggests that the stateâs social distancing measures, although challenging for Michiganders, prevented illness and deaths, providing some relief to our already stretched health care system,â said associate professor Marisa Eisenberg in a news release. Eisenberg has been working with the state of Michigan since the beginning of the pandemic to provide data analysis and modeling related to COVID-19.
Increased social distance measures over Thanksgiving and Christmas following the Pause to Save Lives might have prevented more than 100,000 coronavirus cases in Michigan potentially avoiding thousands of deaths during the holiday season, according to preliminary findings by the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
“Our modeling suggests that the state’s social distancing measures, although challenging for Michiganders, prevented illness and deaths, providing some relief to our already stretched health care system,” said associate professor Marisa Eisenberg, who has been working with the state of Michigan since the beginning of the pandemic to provide data analysis and modeling related to COVID-19.