7 lessons learned from Michigan’s spring COVID-19 surge
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Saginaw resident Linda Moton receives a dose of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine during a clinic hosted by the Saginaw County Department of Health in the former Sears located in the Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw. The site will have vaccine May 11 through June 30 Tuesdays and Wednesdays. (Cody Scanlan | MLive.com)
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It’s been a difficult spring for Michigan, which quickly went from a state with one of the lowest rates of COVID-19 transmission to the worst state in the country.
Since March 1, the state has had more than 240,000 confirmed coronavirus case and almost 2,700 deaths. Since late March, more than 20,000 have been hospitalized with COVID.
Michigan s COVID-19 case rate appears to have peaked as surge slows Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press
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Michigan s coronavirus case rate has begun to fall, dropping 12.5% over the last week, suggesting the state s third surge the worst in the U.S. may be waning.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday that the seven-day average of new cases in Michigan fell from 551.8 per 100,000 people on April 14 to 483 per 100,000 Wednesday. It s pretty early in the dip to say it s going to be sustained, said Ryan Malosh, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, but it does look like we have peaked.
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