Metro Detroit father hospitalized for 6 months due to COVID reunites with his young daughter
Mike Purdy has spent most of the last six months hospitalized and unconscious
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GROSSE POINTE, Mich. – To say it’s been a long hard road for Mike Purdy would be an understatement, the Grosse Pointe father has been in the hospital battling COVID since November of 2020.
“He started with pretty mild symptoms and then they progressed over about a week and he ended up in the hospital,” said Mike’s wife, Judy. “He progressively got worse and worse, and that’s when he ended up being intubated and on a ventilator, and then eventually on something called ECMO, which is a lung bypass machine, and he was on that actually for 101 days.”
Michigan COVID: Here s what to know April 22, 2021
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Coronavirus in Michigan: Here’s what to know April 20, 2021
8,574 new COVID-19 cases reported Sunday-Monday
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Michigan COVID-19 data as of April 19, 2021 (WDIV)
DETROIT – The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan has risen to 793,881 as of Monday, including 16,901 deaths, state officials report.
Testing has been steady around 35,000 diagnostic tests reported per day on average, with the
7-day positive rate above 14% as of Friday, lower than one week ago. Hospitalizations have increased over the last several weeks, now at the highest point of the pandemic.
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Michigan continues to lead the nation in new COVID-19 cases. The state’s 7-day moving average for daily cases was 6,755 on Sunday the highest since December. The 7-day death average was 52 on Sunday, slightly higher than the last two weeks. The state’s fatality rate is 2.2%. The state also reports “active cases,” which were listed at 165,000 on Sunday