Michigan has 14 counties at a excessive COVID-19 Neighborhood Stage this week in accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
The CDC makes use of Neighborhood Ranges to find out COVID danger, placing counties in one in every of three buckets: low (inexperienced), medium (yellow) or excessive (orange).
The CDC recommends masking whereas indoors in public when counties are at a excessive Neighborhood Stage, no matter vaccination standing. Nonetheless, folks with signs, a optimistic check or publicity to somebody with COVID-19 ought to put on a masks no matter the place they reside, the CDC says.
The 14 counties at a excessive degree this week are: Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Dickinson, Eaton, Ingham, Ionia, Iron, Lapeer, Macomb, Midland, Schoolcraft, Shiawassee and Washtenaw counties.
Michigan has 34 counties at a medium degree and 35 counties at a low COVID-19 Neighborhood Stage this week.
Right here’s the most recent map displaying the Neighborhood Stage for every Michigan county. Faucet or hover over a county to see particulars.
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The CDC considers circumstances and hospitalizations when figuring out COVID danger for an space. The purpose is to stop extreme illness and restrict pressure on hospitals.
For Neighborhood Ranges, the CDC seems at three components 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 degree when there are 200 or extra new circumstances per 100,000 up to now week and both (a) 10-plus new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 or (b) when no less than 10% of the staffed inpatient beds are occupied by COVID sufferers.
If hospitalizations are significantly excessive, even a county with low circumstances will be at a excessive degree, per the CDC method.
(Not each county has a hospital, so each is assigned a well being providers space, a geographic area that accommodates no less than one hospital. Counties are attributed the metrics calculated for all the space, weighted primarily based on every county’s inhabitants.)
Right here’s extra on the state of COVID-19 in Michigan.
Michigan is reporting 2,086 new, confirmed circumstances per day up to now week
Reported COVID circumstances are up 16.0% from final week, because the state had 2,086 new, confirmed circumstances this week.
Michigan has hovered across the 2,000-case-per-day mark for a lot of the summer season.
Michigan additionally reported 539 “possible” COVID circumstances per day this week.
Circumstances are “confirmed” when there’s a optimistic end result from an NAAT/RT-PCR check. Circumstances are “possible” when there’s a reported antigen (speedy) check or if any person 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 primarily based solely on “confirmed” numbers.
The Michigan Division of Well being and Human Companies studies COVID circumstances as soon as per week. The division introduced 18,375 confirmed and possible circumstances this week.
Michigan has reported 2.4 million confirmed COVID circumstances and practically 378,000 possible circumstances for the reason that 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’s COVID fee was the eighth highest within the U.S. up to now week, in accordance with the New York Instances.
Michigan had fewer COVID circumstances than final week, however managed to maneuver up the listing for highest COVID fee as a result of 46 of the 50 states noticed their fee decline up to now week.
West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alaska, North Carolina and Ohio had probably the most COVID circumstances per capita this week. Nevada, California, Washington, Utah, Montana and Wyoming had the bottom COVID charges.
For COVID hospitalizations, Michigan ranked 14th of fifty this week. The state additionally had the fourth-most COVID deaths per capita this week.
42 counties noticed rise in circumstances in final seven days
Of Michigan’s 83 counties, 42 had extra circumstances this week than final week.
Lots of Michigan’s bigger counties had massive will increase in circumstances. Ingham County was up 39% in comparison with final week, Kalamazoo County elevated 34%, Wayne County jumped 32%, Oakland County was up 23%, Washtenaw County jumped 20%, Macomb County elevated by 19% and Kent County rose 8%.
See the database under to go looking by county and type by most/fewest circumstances. The chart additionally reveals the % change from week to week and the seven-day case common per capita.
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37 Michigan counties at highest danger for circumstances
There are 37 counties on the highest danger degree (Stage E) for circumstances, down from 43 counties final week.
The MDHHS has 5 danger ranges for COVID circumstances:
- Stage A: 7-19 circumstances per day per million
- Stage B: 20-39 circumstances per day per million
- Stage C: 40-69 circumstances per day per million
- Stage D: 70-149 circumstances per day per million
- Stage E: 150+ circumstances per day per million
The counties with the best COVID charges in Michigan this week have been Iron, Dickinson, Washtenaw, Midland, Schoolcraft and Ingham counties.
The bottom COVID charges have been in Alcona, Huron, Presque Isle, Leelanau, Antrim and Cheboygan counties.
The map under is shaded by the state’s six risk-assessment ranges from A to E. That is primarily based on new circumstances reported per day per million folks from Sept. 7-13.
The arrows on every county present if new circumstances this week are up or down in comparison with the earlier week. Put your cursor over a county to see the underlying knowledge. (Trace: Drag the map together with your cursor to see all the U.P.)
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COVID case totals don’t inform the entire story. At-home exams will not be reported, so these aren’t included within the knowledge. That’s why it’s additionally key to take a look at % positivity of reported exams and knowledge on hospitalizations and deaths.
Common check positivity is eighteen%
About 18 of each 100 COVID exams reported to the state on Monday, Sept. 12, got here again optimistic.
The positivity fee has hovered between 18% and 19% up to now week.
The World Well being Group considers there to be a considerable degree neighborhood transmission when positivity charges are above 5%.
Michigan’s fee 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 exams reported that got here again optimistic all through the pandemic.
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Eaton County had the best positivity fee of all Michigan counties this week, at 30.5%. Baraga, Keweenaw and Lake counties all had a positivity fee lower than 5%.
To see the COVID check positivity fee to your county, see the searchable desk under.
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The interactive map under reveals the seven-day common testing fee by county. Put your cursor over a county to see particulars.
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Hospitals treating 1,145 confirmed or suspected grownup COVID-19 sufferers
Michigan had 1,145 adults in hospitals with confirmed or suspected COVID as of Wednesday, Sept. 14. That’s down barely from 1,172 grownup hospitalizations final week.
Earlier than this week, Michigan COVID hospitalizations had risen in eight of the earlier 9 weeks.
Of the 1,145 adults within the hospital with COVID on Wednesday, 148 have been in intensive care and 69 have been on a ventilator.
There have been additionally 46 youngsters hospitalized with COVID in Michigan as of Wednesday.
Michigan is reporting 21 new COVID deaths per day up to now week
Michigan averaged 21 COVID deaths per day this week, the best mark since March.
Nevertheless it’s nonetheless far fewer COVID deaths than Michigan had throughout omicron’s winter peak. Michigan was averaging greater than 100 COVID deaths per day throughout elements of January.
Michigan has had 34,970 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and three,347 possible COVID deaths for the reason that pandemic started. Put one other means, roughly one in each 287 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: 63.4% of residents have obtained no less than one dose
About 63.4% of Michigan residents have gotten no less than one COVID shot, 58.3% have obtained the complete unique routine and 33.9% have been boosted.
The omicron-specific COVID-19 booster shot is now accessible in Michigan from each Pfizer and Moderna.
The brand new pictures are approved to be used as a single booster dose, administered no less than two months after a earlier COVID vaccine. Moderna’s shot is allowed for folks 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 no less than one shot (initiated) and those that are “accomplished,” which means two pictures of mRNA vaccines or one Johnson & Johnson shot, as of Wednesday, Sept. 14:
- 75 and older: 87.1% initiated; 81.3% accomplished
- 65 to 74: 90.4% initiated; 85.4% accomplished
- 50 to 64: 76.9% initiated; 72.2% accomplished
- 40 to 49: 67.6% initiated; 62.4% accomplished
- 30 to 39: 65.9% initiated; 59.6% accomplished
- 20 to 29: 55.6% initiated; 49.4% accomplished
- 16 to 19: 56.6% initiated; 51.6% accomplished
- 12 to fifteen: 49.8% initiated; 46.1% accomplished
- 5 to 11: 30.3% initiated; 27.3% accomplished
- Youthful than 5: 6.2% initiated, 1.5% 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 [email protected], 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 [email protected] to be thought-about for future MLive reporting.
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