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REGISTERED NURSE MONICA Quintana dons protective gear Wednesday before entering a room at the William Beaumont hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. Beaumont Health warned that its hospitals and staff had hit critical capacity levels. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) Eric Gala passed up an opportunity to get a coronavirus vaccine when shots became available in Michigan, and he admits not taking the virus seriously enough.
Then he got sick with what he thought was the flu. He thought he would sweat it out and then feel back to normal.
Before long, the 63-year-old Detroit-area retiree was in a hospital hooked up to a machine to help him breathe. He had COVID-19.
Variants rose and vigilance fell; why Michigan became country s hotspot for COVID-19
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Then he got sick with what he thought was the flu. He thought he would sweat it out and then feel back to normal.
Before long, the 63-year-old Detroit-area retiree was in a hospital hooked up to a machine to help him breathe. He had COVID-19. I was having more trouble breathing and they turned the oxygen up higher that s when I got scared and thought I wasn t going to make it, a visibly weary Gala told The Associated Press on Wednesday from his hospital bed at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, north of Detroit. I had so many people tell me this was a fake disease.
Michigan Totaled More Coronavirus Cases in Past Two Weeks Than Texas, California Combined
On 4/26/21 at 11:40 AM EDT
Michigan has become the country s coronavirus hot spot, with 91,000 new infections in the past two weeks, more than the cases in Texas and California combined, according to the Associated Press.
This makes Michigan s infection rates the highest in the country as 4,698 new cases were reported on Saturday, adding to the state s total of more than 800,000 COVID-19 cases to date. The numbers are going up. We know wearing a mask is our best strategy for keeping infection rates down for COVID-19. So help end this pandemic and mask up until more people are vaccinated, Michigan s Department of Health and Human Services tweeted Monday morning.
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In this April 15 photo, emergency room technicians test patients for COVID-19 outside of the emergency entrance of Beaumont Hospital in Grosse Pointe. Michigan has become the current national hot spot for COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations at a time when more than half the U.S. adult population has been vaccinated and other states have seen the virus diminish substantially. Beaumont Health warned that its hospitals and staff had hit critical capacity levels. (AP photo)
ROYAL OAK Eric Gala passed up an opportunity to get a coronavirus vaccine when shots became available in Michigan, and he admits not taking the virus seriously enough.
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ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) Eric Gala passed up an opportunity to get a coronavirus vaccine when shots became available in Michigan, and he admits not taking the virus seriously enough.
Then he got sick with what he thought was the flu. He thought he would sweat it out and then feel back to normal.
Before long, the 63-year-old Detroit-area retiree was in a hospital hooked up to a machine to help him breathe. He had COVID-19.