Michigan has 14 counties at a excessive COVID-19 Group Degree this week based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
The CDC makes use of Group Ranges to find out COVID threat, placing counties in one in all 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. Nevertheless, individuals 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 stage 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 stage and 35 counties at a low COVID-19 Group Degree this week.
Right here’s the most recent map exhibiting the Group Degree for every Michigan county. Faucet or hover over a county to see particulars.
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The CDC considers instances and hospitalizations when figuring out COVID threat for an space. The aim is to forestall extreme illness and restrict pressure on hospitals.
For Group Ranges, the CDC appears to be like at three elements for every county: the share of staffed hospital beds occupied by COVID sufferers, COVID hospital admissions per capita and COVID instances per capita.
A county is at a excessive stage when there are 200 or extra new instances per 100,000 up 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 instances may be at a excessive stage, per the CDC components.
(Not each county has a hospital, so each is assigned a well being companies space, a geographic area that accommodates not 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 instances per day up to now week
Reported COVID instances are up 16.0% from final week, because the state had 2,086 new, confirmed instances 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 instances per day this week.
Circumstances are “confirmed” when there’s a optimistic outcome from an NAAT/RT-PCR check. Circumstances are “possible” when there’s a reported antigen (fast) 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 primarily based solely on “confirmed” numbers.
The Michigan Division of Well being and Human Companies stories COVID instances as soon as per week. The division introduced 18,375 confirmed and possible instances this week.
Michigan has reported 2.4 million confirmed COVID instances and almost 378,000 possible instances for the reason that pandemic started.
The chart beneath reveals the seven-day common for brand new, confirmed COVID instances all through the pandemic.
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Michigan ranks eighth within the U.S. in new instances per capita
Michigan’s COVID fee was the eighth highest within the U.S. up to now week, based on the New York Occasions.
Michigan had fewer COVID instances than final week, however managed to maneuver up the record 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 instances 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 instances in final seven days
Of Michigan’s 83 counties, 42 had extra instances this week than final week.
A lot of Michigan’s bigger counties had massive will increase in instances. 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 beneath to look by county and kind by most/fewest instances. The chart additionally reveals the p.c change from week to week and the seven-day case common per capita.
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37 Michigan counties at highest threat for instances
There are 37 counties on the highest threat stage (Degree E) for instances, down from 43 counties final week.
The MDHHS has 5 threat ranges for COVID instances:
- Degree A: 7-19 instances per day per million
- Degree B: 20-39 instances per day per million
- Degree C: 40-69 instances per day per million
- Degree D: 70-149 instances per day per million
- Degree E: 150+ instances per day per million
The counties with the very best COVID charges in Michigan this week had been Iron, Dickinson, Washtenaw, Midland, Schoolcraft and Ingham counties.
The bottom COVID charges had been in Alcona, Huron, Presque Isle, Leelanau, Antrim and Cheboygan counties.
The map beneath is shaded by the state’s six risk-assessment ranges from A to E. That is primarily based on new instances reported per day per million individuals from Sept. 7-13.
The arrows on every county present if new instances 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 along 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 usually are not reported, so these aren’t included within the knowledge. That’s why it’s additionally key to have a look at p.c 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 stage 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 beneath reveals the share of COVID-19 exams reported that got here again optimistic all through the pandemic.
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Eaton County had the very 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 in your county, see the searchable desk beneath.
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The interactive map beneath 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 had been in intensive care and 69 had 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 very best mark since March.
However 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 components 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 manner, 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 acquired not less than one dose
About 63.4% of Michigan residents have gotten not less than one COVID shot, 58.3% have acquired the total authentic routine and 33.9% have been boosted.
The omicron-specific COVID-19 booster shot is now obtainable in Michigan from each Pfizer and Moderna.
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 people who 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 of for future MLive reporting.
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