COVID cases are down, masks still recommended for 10 Michigan counties

Covid instances are down throughout Michigan, however consultants say some areas within the state nonetheless must masks up whereas indoors.

The state reported nearly 20,000 COVID instances final week.

The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention says that 10 of Michigan’s 83 counties nonetheless have a excessive transmission charge and may put on masks indoors.

These counties are largely in Southeast Michigan and the Higher Peninsula.

Dennis Cunningham is a system medical director on the Henry Ford Well being Middle. He says we should always count on future COVID surges and to proceed to get COVID boosters.

“We truly nonetheless have fairly a little bit of Covid in Southeast Michigan, particularly in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties. I feel anyone that has continual medical issues or could be in danger for extreme COVID, they need to completely put on a masks,” he mentioned.

CDC knowledge says that hospitalizations from COVID-19 are down in Michigan as effectively.

Cunningham says that most individuals who’ve gotten COVID over the previous few weeks have been significantly much less sick, partly resulting from variants and vaccinations.

“Proper now, about 37% of Michigan’s individuals 12 and over have acquired a booster. So which means two-thirds of the state is below vaccinated,” he mentioned. “I do suppose the vaccines are the easiest way to get out of this and cease the surges.”

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