One year of virus fatalities comparable to third-highest cause of death
If the COVID-19 year synched with a typical calendar year, the coronavirus would be the third-leading major cause of death in Monroe County.
That s the stunning detail when looking at the numbers of confirmed coronavirus deaths, as compared to cause of death reports in recent years.
The first COVID-19 coronavirus was confirmed in Monroe County on March 14, 2020; four days after the first cases were confirmed in Michigan. It took awhile before the first COVID-19 death was confirmed to a Monroe County resident.
Not all cause of death data is available yet for calendar year 2020; but COVID-19 is already showing up as a significant impact.
The National Weather Service in Detroit has issued a Lakeshore Flood Warning for Monroe County; with the alert for the shoreline areas in effect from 11 a.m. Thursday through 4 a.m. Friday.
While Lake Erie s water levels have receded somewhat from the record highs of 2019 and 2020, the U.S. Army Corps s most recent forecast says the water levels are still higher than average.
Those conditions, when combined with winds blowing off Lake Erie toward Monroe County, have contributed to numerous local flooding incidents during the past three years. County officials are preparing for the situation.
A Lakeshore Flood Warning is typically issued when the recorded water level readings at the nearby NOAA meters approach or go over 70 inches above Low Water Datum. The forecast is for 72 inches. Those water level meters are at the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in Newport, at City of Gibraltar and City of Toledo.
Monroe s 100 Women Who Care choose Catholic Charities for donation
The members of 100 Women Who Care Monroe County group selected Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan for their Q4 2020 donations.
The amount from 100 Women Who Care was $5,282.67; with a match of $2,216.50, for a total of $7,499.77. The 100 Women Who Care co-founders Karen Schenavar and Sandra White then received a tour of the downtown Monroe Catholic Charities office from Wendy Klinski, director of behavior health.
Catholic Charities, 25 S. Monroe St., provides counseling and addiction services, necessities for babies and other resources. The items that these donations paid for included a TV monitor and camera to allow for Zoom video conference group sessions; along with supplies and games for the children s therapy sessions, as the counselors have been purchasing many of the children s items with their own money.
A series of pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics is starting in Monroe County, through the efforts of the ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital Vaccine Team and the Monroe County Emergency Management Division.
This effort is in addition to COVID-19 vaccination clinics that are already in progress or in the works in the region, such as the vaccination appointments that are handled through the Monroe County Health Department.
The first ProMedica/EMD partnership vaccination clinic will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday March 20 at Exeter Township Fire Station, 1120 Sumpter Road, Carleton. This clinic will provide the Moderna vaccine, according to the announcement that ProMedica issued Wednesday. Other pop-up clinics in the western portion of Monroe County will be scheduled through this program during the next 30 to 60 days.
A cat rescue and adoption center in Monroe County is handling its largest feline rescue case yet, providing emergency care and follow up services for 33 cats found in an abandoned downtown Monroe home.
Friends of Companion Animals, 2532 N. Dixie Highway, Frenchtown Township, gave that report Tuesday, with a request for donations from the public to assist on this emergency situation.
FOCA is unique among the local animal organizations as it is the only all-cat rescue and adoption center in the Monroe area. Although they have done smaller multi-feline rescues in the past, this recent endeavor is the largest that the all-volunteer, nonprofit has faced since its establishment in 2011, the report said.