Michigan - Coronavirus COVID-19

[JDG]

I have been posting all morning about this type of situation. Covid - 19 patients, unvaccinated - spreading the virus --- filling up hospitals to capacity booting urgent and emergency type patients from the hospital: Administration/physicians asking patients who have other types of illnesses/conditions/ some of an emergency nature to go to urgent care or do whatever else they do, except come to the emergency room of the hospital. It is so disgusting. For Covid 19 patients it is a win win situation, unless they die-- do whatever the heck you want with respect to ignoring health guidelines with respect to Covid, but when you feel like crap, take your sick butt to the hospital and hoard hospital beds--leaving the rest of us who might need emergency treatment to fend for ourselves. Nice- real nice.

I agree totally with your post but wonder if there is another side to that coin.

If a nonCOVID person gets sick and can be treated outside of the hospital, is it not safer for them to be treated elsewhere?

Wonder what the numbers are for people catching COVID while IN hospital for other conditions?

Obviously, there are situations where there are no choices though.

 

[ilovewings]

I agree totally with your post but wonder if there is another side to that coin.

If a nonCOVID person gets sick and can be treated outside of the hospital, is it not safer for them to be treated elsewhere?

Wonder what the numbers are for people catching COVID while IN hospital for other conditions?

Obviously, there are situations where there are no choices though.

I think what is happening is that lots of non-vaxxed
people, is that when they get symptoms they go into
denial about Covid to the point they wait too long
before seeking treatment so they wind up very
sick requiring hospitalization, often on ICU with a
ventilator.

 

[ilovewings]

Lessons Michigan can take from Florida’s devastating Delta surge

What I found to be the most important information in this article is this:

" We have never ever reached herd immunity without widespread vaccinations"

"We have never reached herd immunity through natural infection and I don't see
how this virus is going to be any different"

The article also states there are many theories as to when this pandemic will end, but it is stated no one really knows when it will end

 

[JDG]

^^^I think the current situation points to it ending only when it runs out of hosts.

At the moment, most hosts are unvaccinated people.

Once it burns its way through the hosts, will the vaccinated people have enough immunity to defeat it??

That, I think, is the question.

And of course any mutations that strengthen the virus could be problematic.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Michigan adopts new definition of school COVID outbreak, raising threshold (clickondetroit.com)

Definition now calls for 3 cases, not 2 associated with a school

Michigan health officials are adopting a new definition of COVID-19 school outbreaks that lifts the threshold from two cases to three associated with a school.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) gets such a definition from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists -- view that here. The new definition changes the threshold to at least three cases within a group, up from two...

 

[ilovewings]

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[BetteDavisEyes]

Several Michigan counties rescind school mask mandates over budget language (clickondetroit.com)

Whitmer says this is unconstitutional and unenforceable

DETROIT – Wayne, Oakland and Washtenaw counties are keeping their K-12 school mask mandates in place, but it’s a mixed bag across the rest of the state.

The issue is language in the budget bill passed by the Michigan Legislature and signed by the governor. In what’s known as boilerplate language, there is a section which forbids local health departments from issuing K-12 school mask mandates, and if they do have an emergency health order in place past Oct. 1, their funding is forfeited...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Behind the teacher shortage, an unexpected culprit: Covid relief money (nbcnews.com)

“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this,” one expert said. “There’s a lot of money flowing.”

DETROIT — When a staffing crisis at Eastpointe Middle School outside Detroit forced administrators to close the school last month for more than a week, moving classes online, it wasn’t because of a Covid-19 outbreak.

And it wasn’t because the district’s teachers had fled the profession after a year and a half of disruptions to instruction and tensions over Covid safety.

The problem, Eastpointe Community Schools Superintendent Ryan McLeod said, is that they could get better teaching jobs — and did.

Of the 10 teachers who resigned from his district since Aug. 9, at least seven landed in other districts, he said...

 

[ilovewings]

4 reasons why eastern Upper Peninsula is now Michigan’s COVID-19 hot spot

As an aside, I was wondering if the huge football crowds would be superspreaders. Shepherd Smith discussed this very thing on his show last week and said, surprisingly, these large football crowds have not turned out to be the super spreaders they were feared to be. They think it is because the crowds are outdoors so that is the good news.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Macomb County leads Michigan in new COVID-19 outbreaks in K-12 schools (detroitnews.com)

Macomb County is leading the state in the number of schools with new COVID-19 outbreaks, with 25 of the state's 101 new clusters reported there on Monday.

There were a total of 858 new cases at K-12 schools in Michigan in the past week, state health officials reported on Monday.

Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township has the highest number of new cases at a single school — 53 — according to state health officials, while Stevenson High School in Sterling Heights has the second highest with 45 cases. Both schools have outbreaks affecting students and staff...

This is what happens when Macomb County officials refuse to issue a mask mandate in schools

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Cat in Ingham County first in Michigan to contract COVID (detroitnews.com)

Lansing — A cat from Ingham County is the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 in the state of Michigan.

The cat had close contact with its owners, who had a confirmed case of COVID-19 about a week before the cat became ill. The domestic shorthair cat was tested after it began to sneeze. The cat has recovered...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Washtenaw County woman’s death attributed to rare complication from Johnson & Johnson vaccine, report says (clickondetroit.com)

Family says Sandra Jacobs got J&J vaccine before it was temporarily suspended

WASHTENAW COUNTY, Mich. – It’s a staggering number to consider -- More than 700,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.

While vaccines have been overwhelmingly successful at protecting people from contracting the virus, in rare cases, there have been documented illnesses and even deaths.

In April, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was temporarily suspended after reports of blood clots. During that time, a Washtenaw County woman died after getting the single dose. A postmortem examination determined the woman died from complications of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Sandra Jacobs’ didn’t want to get vaccinated but ultimately decided to because she had to travel for work...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Oakland County leads Michigan in new COVID-19 school outbreaks (detroitnews.com)

The number of new COVID-19 outbreaks at Michigan schools dropped this week to 76 clusters, but still represented 428 new cases statewide, data from state health officials showed on Monday.

Oakland County, which has a countywide mask mandate, led the state in the highest number of new outbreaks with 10 schools reporting cases, including an outbreak involving Lawrence Technological University's football team, which has 12 cases.

Across the state, Shepherd High School in Isabella County had the largest outbreak with 31 student cases while Byron Center High School in Kent County has 26 cases involving both students and staff.

Last week, the state reported 101 schools with new outbreaks and a total of 858 new cases at K-12 schools in Michigan...

We've been debating whether or not we will hand out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Due to Covid, we were home last year but did not have lights on so no one came by. We always make a treat bag for the little girl next door and have already done that in case we go out for dinner during trick-or-treat. Our neighborhood tends to draw children who don't live here, so the Oakland County schools Covid outbreak is troublesome. Given that there wasn't much in the way of Halloween last year, it will probably be very busy this year. I think we'll deliver the goody bag next door and head out for dinner during the trick-or-treat hours (6-8PM).

 

[ilovewings]

Oakland County leads Michigan in new COVID-19 school outbreaks (detroitnews.com)

The number of new COVID-19 outbreaks at Michigan schools dropped this week to 76 clusters, but still represented 428 new cases statewide, data from state health officials showed on Monday.

Oakland County, which has a countywide mask mandate, led the state in the highest number of new outbreaks with 10 schools reporting cases, including an outbreak involving Lawrence Technological University's football team, which has 12 cases.

Across the state, Shepherd High School in Isabella County had the largest outbreak with 31 student cases while Byron Center High School in Kent County has 26 cases involving both students and staff.

Last week, the state reported 101 schools with new outbreaks and a total of 858 new cases at K-12 schools in Michigan...

We've been debating whether or not we will hand out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Due to Covid, we were home last year but did not have lights on so no one came by. We always make a treat bag for the little girl next door and have already done that in case we go out for dinner during trick-or-treat. Our neighborhood tends to draw children who don't live here, so the Oakland County schools Covid outbreak is troublesome. Given that there wasn't much in the way of Halloween last year, it will probably be very busy this year. I think we'll deliver the goody bag next door and head out for dinner during the trick-or-treat hours (6-8PM).

Good information: this will be another Halloween where our house will be dark-that is too bad because we love all the kiddies that come to our home for Haloween!
I am pretty surprised at how high the school outbreaks are in Oakland County

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

University of Michigan: Employees not in compliance with vaccine policy will face work suspension, termination (clickondetroit.com)

ANN ARBOR – The University of Michigan announced this week that employees out of compliance with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate will soon face sanctions if they do not take action.

According to U-M’s vaccine policy, faculty and staff across all three U-M campuses must show proof of vaccination or receive an approved religious or medical exemption. Those who receive exemptions must undergo weekly testing.

The school will begin taking action against those who have failed to follow its accountability measures on Nov. 8 for staff and at the conclusion of the fall semester for faculty...

 

[ilovewings]

Michigan adds 9,313 cases, 65 deaths from COVID-19 over three days

Michigan remains with a high transmissibile rate of this virus. Michigan's cases are rising while Florida's cases are decreasing quite a bit. A lot of this has to do with transmission of the virus in our schools.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Michigan poised to vaccinate kids ages 5-11 as soon as Wednesday (detroitnews.com)

Doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for kids ages 5 through 11 have already arrived in Michigan and providers are ready to start giving the shots as early as Wednesday.

The federal Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for the children's vaccine on Friday, but health care providers had been waiting for sign-off from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before administering the shots.

That came Tuesday night when U.S. health officials with the CDC gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot. Earlier Tuesday afternoon, a CDC advisory panel voted in favor of giving children in that age group Pfizer’s pediatric COVID-19 shots...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Sixth-graders at Pioneer Middle School to learn remotely for rest of week due to COVID absences (clickondetroit.com)

Over 25% of sixth-grade class out due to positive test or close contact quarantine

PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Sixth-grade students at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth Township will switch to remote learning for the rest of the week due to a high number of COVID-related absences, officials said.

In a message sent to families, school officials said there has been an increase in positive COVID cases at the middle school, and that has led to a larger number of close contacts.

“At this time, over 25% of Pioneer sixth-grade students are out of school either as a positive case or a close contact quarantine,” the message says...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

COVID-19 cases rising in K-12 schools, more than 100 new outbreaks reported (detroitnews.com)

The number of new COVID-19 outbreaks at Michigan K-12 schools increased to 104 clusters, a slight rise from last week's numbers, representing 666 new cases statewide, data from state health officials showed on Monday.

The largest outbreak was in Genesee County's Carman-Ainsworth High School in Flint with 56 cases among students and staff. Universal Learning Academy in Westland had 19 cases of staff and students.

Three Michigan counties each had seven K-12 schools with cases: Kent, Ottawa and Wayne...