Hospitalizations and circumstances are on the decline in Michigan, which is why the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention has only one county at a excessive COVID-19 Group Degree this week.
Final week, Michigan had seven counties at a excessive stage.
The CDC makes use of Group Ranges to find out COVID threat, placing counties in considered one of three buckets: low (inexperienced), medium (yellow) or excessive (orange).
The CDC recommends masking whereas indoors in public when counties are at a excessive Group Degree, no matter vaccination standing. Nonetheless, individuals with signs, a optimistic check or publicity to somebody with COVID-19 ought to put on a masks no matter the place they stay, the CDC says.
The lone county at a excessive stage this week is Monroe County, which is within the southeast nook of Michigan.
Right here’s the newest map displaying the Group Degree for every Michigan county. Faucet or hover over a county to see particulars.
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Michigan has 25 counties at a medium stage and 57 counties at a low COVID-19 Group Degree this week.
Because the map reveals, the medium-level counties are clustered in southeast Michigan, plus a number of extra alongside U.S. 131 and a small cluster close to the Mackinaw Bridge.
The CDC considers circumstances and hospitalizations when figuring out COVID threat for an space. The objective is to stop extreme illness and restrict pressure on hospitals.
For Group Ranges, the CDC appears at three elements for every county: the proportion of staffed hospital beds occupied by COVID sufferers, COVID hospital admissions per capita and COVID circumstances per capita.
A county is at a excessive stage when there are 200 or extra new circumstances per 100,000 prior to now week and both (A) 10-plus new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 or (B) when not less than 10% of the staffed inpatient beds are occupied by COVID sufferers.
If hospitalizations are notably excessive, even a county with low circumstances will be at a excessive stage, per the CDC system.
(Not each county has a hospital, so every one is assigned a well being companies space, a geographic area that incorporates not less than one hospital. Counties are attributed the metrics calculated for your complete space, weighted based mostly on every county’s inhabitants. For instance: Monroe County’s well being companies space additionally consists of the Toledo, Ohio space.)
Right here’s extra on the place Michigan stands with COVID.
Michigan is reporting 1,615 new, confirmed circumstances per day prior to now week
New COVID circumstances dropped 12.7% this week, all the way down to 1,615 new, confirmed circumstances per day. That’s the bottom mark because the week of Independence Day.
Michigan additionally reported 482 “possible” COVID circumstances per day this week.
Circumstances are “confirmed” when there’s a optimistic consequence from an NAAT/RT-PCR check. Circumstances are “possible” when there’s a reported antigen (speedy) check or if anyone has signs and was uncovered to an individual with COVID-19.
All graphics on this story besides the preliminary one (which makes use of CDC case calculations) are based mostly solely on “confirmed” numbers.
The Michigan Division of Well being and Human Providers studies COVID circumstances as soon as per week. The division introduced 14,678 confirmed and possible circumstances this week.
Michigan has reported almost 2.5 million confirmed COVID circumstances and greater than 385,000 possible circumstances because the pandemic started.
The chart under reveals the seven-day common for brand new, confirmed COVID circumstances all through the pandemic.
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Michigan ranks eighth within the U.S. in new circumstances per capita
Michigan had the eighth-most new COVID circumstances per capita prior to now week among the many 50 U.S. states, in line with the New York Instances. Michigan ranked seventh final week.
States with the best COVID charges are Kentucky, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York and North Carolina. States with the bottom COVID charges proper now are Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Utah, Nebraska and Indiana.
For COVID hospitalizations per capita, Michigan ranks tenth this week. For COVID deaths per capita, Michigan had the third-most this week.
25 counties noticed rise in circumstances in final seven days
Of Michigan’s 83 counties, 25 had extra circumstances this week than final week.
All of Michigan’s largest counties noticed a decline in new circumstances. Wayne County dropped 4% and Oakland County dipped 7%. The next massive counties all noticed circumstances fall by 10% or extra: Macomb, Kent, Washtenaw, Kalamazoo, Genesee, Ingham, St. Clair, Saginaw, Livingston, Ottawa, Jackson, Muskegon, Calhoun and Berrien counties.
It was largely smaller counties that noticed their weekly circumstances double: Antrim, Ogemaw, Luce, Alger, Benzie, Gogebic, Baraga and Alcona counties had been all up 100% or extra for brand new circumstances in comparison with final week.
See the database under to go looking/kind case totals by county. The chart additionally reveals the p.c change from week to week and the seven-day case common per capita.
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23 Michigan counties at highest threat for circumstances
There are 23 counties on the highest threat stage (Degree E) for circumstances, down from 24 counties final week.
The MDHHS has 5 threat ranges for COVID circumstances:
- Degree A: 7-19 circumstances per day per million residents
- Degree B: 20-39 circumstances per day per million
- Degree C: 40-69 circumstances per day per million
- Degree D: 70-149 circumstances per day per million
- Degree E: 150+ circumstances per day per million
Counties with the best COVID charges this week had been Wayne, Eaton, Ogemaw, Schoolcraft and Macomb counties. All 5 had been above 200 circumstances per day, per 1 million residents.
The bottom COVID charges this week had been in Alpena, Leelanau, Charlevoix, St. Joseph and Cheboygan counties.
The map under is shaded by the state’s six risk-assessment ranges from A to E. That is based mostly on new circumstances reported per day per million individuals from Sept. 21-27.
The arrows on every county present if new circumstances this week had been up or down in comparison with the earlier week. Put your cursor over a county to see the underlying knowledge. (Trace: Drag the map along with your cursor to see your complete U.P.)
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COVID case totals don’t inform the entire story. At-home checks will not be reported, so these aren’t included within the knowledge. That’s why it’s additionally key to take a look at p.c positivity of reported checks and knowledge on hospitalizations and deaths.
Common check positivity is 15%
On Monday, Sept. 26, about 15% of Michigan’s reported COVID checks got here again optimistic. Till this week, the positivity price had been above 15% since early July.
The positivity price has hovered between 14% and 15% prior to now week.
The World Well being Group considers there to be a considerable stage group transmission when positivity charges are above 5%.
Michigan’s price peaked at 35% in January. It dipped as little as 2% in early March earlier than climbing once more.
The graph under reveals the proportion of COVID-19 checks reported that got here again optimistic all through the pandemic.
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The very best positivity charges in Michigan this week had been in Eaton, Luce, Clinton, Hillsdale, Van Buren and Kalamazoo counties. The bottom positivity charges had been in Iron, Mackinac, Alpena, Baraga and Lenawee counties.
To see the COVID check positivity price to your county, see the searchable desk under.
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The interactive map under reveals the seven-day common testing price by county. Put your cursor over a county to see particulars.
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Hospitals treating 1,071 confirmed or suspected grownup COVID-19 sufferers
Michigan had 1,071 adults with COVID in hospitals on Wednesday, Sept. 28. That’s the fewest in Michigan since late July.
Amongst these 1,071 sufferers, 137 had been in intensive care and 47 had been on a ventilator.
There have been additionally 32 children hospitalized with COVID in Michigan as of Wednesday.
Michigan is reporting 18 new COVID deaths per day prior to now week
Michigan averaged 18 COVID deaths per day prior to now week, up barely from 17 per day final week.
Throughout omicron’s peak in January, Michigan was averaging greater than 100 COVID deaths per day.
Michigan has had 35,220 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and three,404 possible COVID deaths because the pandemic started. Put one other approach, roughly one in each 285 Michigan residents have died from confirmed COVID.
Beneath is a chart illustrating the seven-day common for reported deaths all through the pandemic.
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Vaccinations: 63.5% of residents have acquired not less than one dose
About 63.5% of Michigan residents have gotten not less than one COVID shot, 58.5% have acquired the complete unique routine and 34.3% have been boosted.
The omicron-specific COVID-19 booster shot is now out there in Michigan from each Pfizer and Moderna. Greater than 300,000 Michiganders have gotten the bivalent booster thus far.
The brand new pictures are approved to be used as a single booster dose, administered not less than two months after a earlier COVID vaccine. Moderna’s shot is allowed for individuals 18 and older, whereas Pfizer’s is for these 12 and older.
Beneath is a vaccination breakdown by age group of Michiganders who’ve gotten not less than one shot (initiated) and those that are “accomplished,” that means two pictures of mRNA vaccines or one Johnson & Johnson shot, as of Wednesday, Sept. 28.
- 75 and older: 87.2% initiated; 81.5% accomplished
- 65 to 74: 90.5% initiated; 85.7% accomplished
- 50 to 64: 76.9% initiated; 72.4% accomplished
- 40 to 49: 67.7% initiated; 62.6% accomplished
- 30 to 39: 66.0% initiated; 59.7% accomplished
- 20 to 29: 55.7% initiated; 49.5% accomplished
- 16 to 19: 56.7% initiated; 51.7% accomplished
- 12 to fifteen: 49.8% initiated; 46.2% accomplished
- 5 to 11: 30.4% initiated; 27.5% accomplished
- Youthful than 5: 6.7% initiated, 2.0% accomplished
Beneath is a chart that ranks counties from most vaccinated to least vaccinated.
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For extra statewide knowledge, go to MLive’s coronavirus knowledge web page.
To discover a testing website close to you, try the state’s on-line check discover ship an e-mail to COVID19@michigan.gov, or name 888-535-6136 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.
In case you have any COVID-19 questions, please submit them to covidquestions@mlive.com to be thought-about for future MLive reporting.
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