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When COVID-19 cases once again began rising in the United States this spring, it may have felt like déjà vu, a repeat of the early months of the pandemic. While cases are now starting to drop in many, but not all, of the hot spots, the country is still seeing upwards of 50,000 new cases a day, and for a few days in mid-April, those numbers topped 70,000, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This may seem more manageable than the 200,000-plus case days in December and January, but the latest numbers are comparable to the case counts during last summer’s surge.
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Michigan was warned about British COVID-19 variant, but many ignored it
Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, and Mohar Chatterjee, Derek Kravitz and Bianca Fortis, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
Local health departments across Michigan started sounding the alarm months ago.
A deadlier coronavirus variant that had first ravaged Britain was now here in metro Detroit, at the University of Michigan, a state prison in Ionia and rural counties in the Thumb region with doctors, nurses and public health officials fully aware.
And yet Michiganders from state prison employees to small business owners and local officials to parents of high school athletes ignored medical experts repeated warnings about the highly infectious variant. They rebuffed stay-in-place recommendations, allowed crowded events to occur and turned a blind eye to defiant behavior, according to thousands of internal health department emails and contact tracing notes f
Michigan was warned about the British COVID-19 variant, but many ignored it msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.