Michigan - Coronavirus COVID-19

[Yesiamapirate]

Another update from the governor. I truly hope she does not further the restrictions in Michigan. Enough! Moo.

Watch live: Gov. Whitmer update on Michigan's COVID-19 response

 

[MrX]

13 takeaways from Whitmer’s COVID update: Michigan restrictions, why numbers are so high, vaccines

Some interesting items in this piece. The Governor admits that they have much stronger mitigation measures still in place, than other places, yet positivity rate is still high. She also mentions the lack of antibodies, which I still believe will eventually be shown to play a huge roll in why some places seem to be on the road to recovery, while others keep slipping back. Last year, when we were open, while most places were closed, I remember someone saying "this is why you let your kids go outside and play in the dirt."

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

54 takeaways: Beaumont officials on Michigan restrictions, dire hospital situation, COVID stats (clickondetroit.com)

Dr. Nick Gilpin believes Michigan needs restrictions to slow COVID spread

Officials from Beaumont Health talked about whether Michigan needs another COVID shutdown and many other topics while painting a dire picture of hospitals filling up with COVID-19 patients.

Dr. Nick Gilpin, the medical director of infection prevention, and chief nursing officer Susan Grant spoke over Zoom, breaking down the dire situation and calling on Michiganders to help stop the spread of the virus.

Here are the critical facts and takeaways from the news conference...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

A few restaurants voluntarily pause indoor dining after Whitmer's recommendation (detroitnews.com)

A small number of businesses have decided to pause indoor dining this month after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s April 9 suggestion that Michigan diners choose not to eat inside restaurants for two weeks to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

"Give your favorite restaurant your business, sit in the outside area or get take out," she reiterated during Wednesday's press conference addressing the pandemic. In her remarks Friday, she stressed that the recommendation wasn't a mandate but that "we all know what works and this has to be a team effort."...

 

[MrX]

It's interesting that she says "we all know what works," when the results show otherwise. It's almost like a tick - what "works" is what has always worked for pandemics - test/trace/isolate/eradicate. Cloth masks and distancing checkerboards are some how seen as synonymous, leading people like Whitmer to wonder what went wrong.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

It's interesting that she says "we all know what works," when the results show otherwise. It's almost like a tick - what "works" is what has always worked for pandemics - test/trace/isolate/eradicate. Cloth masks and distancing checkerboards are some how seen as synonymous, leading people like Whitmer to wonder what went wrong.

Mask mandates, continuous reminders about hand washing and social distancing, school closings, business shutdowns, restrictions on the size of in-home gatherings, etc. DID NOT WORK. Reopen schools, then close them again and return to remote learning. Open restaurants for indoor dining, then stop indoor dining on the premise that it might have led to an uptick in cases. Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat. The process has become beyond ridiculous and clearly IS NOT WORKING. For more than a year, Michiganders have lived with some of the most intrusive restrictions in the nation, yet we continue to have many cases of Covid. Obviously, what Governor Whitmer and state health officials proposed for more than a year HAS NOT WORKED. JMO

 

[MrX]

The fact that she mentioned "antibodies" tells me that she must be asking her people "why are states that we lambasted for recklessness doing so much better?"

 

[margarita25]

Michigan at 'record high' for COVID-19 hospitalizations of children | Bridge Michigan

“"The state is at a record high for hospitalizations for pediatrics during the entire pandemic and our hospital reflects that," said Dr. Rudolph Valentini, a pediatric nephrologist at Children's Hospital of Michigan and group chief medical officer for the Detroit Medical Center.“

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“"As we're seeing more and more (COVID-19) cases in young people, we fear that we will see more cases of MIS-C at the Children's Hospital, so we're very prepared for that possibility," Olivero said.”

 

[margarita25]

'I think it's going to get worse.' Michigan's thumb hit hard by COVID surge

BBM:

“SANILAC COUNTY (WXYZ) — In Sanilac County, they're on fire with COVID-19. One out of every three people tested for the virus has it.

"The hot spot started in our area in the tip of the thumb," said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.

If you want to know where we’re going with COVID-19, Mayor Duggan says just look north. The surge that’s filling up our hospitals first started in the thumb.”

 

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Michigan governor responds to critics who say she changed her position on following science during pandemic (clickondetroit.com)

Number of COVID-19 cases went down on Saturday with more than 5K reported

DETROIT – As COVID-19 cases continue surging in Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is being criticized by those who believe she has changed her position about following science recommendations related to the pandemic.

Whitmer made an appearance on Meet the Press Sunday with the show’s host Chuck Todd who asked about whether she has changed her position slightly.

Before she could answer clips were shown of Whitmer speaking at the beginning of the pandemic.

“We got to follow the science and the data and we have to make decisions based on that,” said Whitmer in one clip that was played on Meet the Press...

Whitmer says she has fewer 'tools' to combat COVID-19; some go unused (detroitnews.com)

Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer defended her approach to a third wave of COVID-19 during an appearance on "Meet the Press" Sunday, contending that her administration has "a smaller set of tools" to use.

Host Chuck Todd asked the Democratic governor what had changed from the previous surges in the state when Whitmer's administration issued orders that restricted gatherings and businesses and touted the policies as successful at bringing numbers down.

Michigan has led the nation in new cases per population for more than 15 days. Last week, the state reported record levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations and 47,284 new infections, a 20-week high...

 

[margarita25]

Sparrow hospital is at capacity as pandemic rages in Michigan

“Michigan has the worst COVID-19 rate in the country in the last seven days, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost 50,000 people have tested positive in the last week.”

 

[margarita25]

What’s Causing Michigan’s COVID Surge, and Who’s Getting Sick?

“Are the kinds of patients you are seeing now similar to those you treated in previous waves of the pandemic?

What is different about this time, compared with previous times, is that it is a lot of young people—because the first people that got vaccinated were people over the age of 75, health care workers [and later] people over the age of 65. There’s this gap that’s going on right now where there’s a huge portion of the population that’s not vaccinated, and they range in age from children through people in their 50s and 60s. We were getting calls about people in their 30s, in their 40s, in their 50s who had COVID, all of a sudden, really badly.””

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“In these younger patients that you’re seeing, does their disease look like the older patients you had before, or do they present differently?

I don’t think it’s different. What gets you to an ICU is illness severe enough to cause [ARDS]. And often there’s a superimposed bacterial pneumonia on top of COVID. What I think gets you to an ICU, or at least to this level of care where it’s so severe that you need to be intubated, is: you often have a coexisting illness. Even people in their 30s who are otherwise “healthy,” a lot of them have obesity or hypertension—all the sorts of comorbidities that have been associated with severe illness.”

 

[margarita25]

Expert who spoke to Whitmer: Michigan losing race to COVID-19

“"As a matter of disease mitigation, there's no question" shutting down activities like dining inside restaurants, youth sports and moving high schools to virtual learning would be effective in slowing transmission in the state, said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, associate dean for public health practice and training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

"It should be very seriously considered," he said. "Stronger action should be seriously considered, but I also at the same time understand that she’s using her judgment about what people will accept."”

 

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Michigan House unveils plan to spend federal COVID-19 aid | WOODTV.com

 

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3 who died after vaccine were infected before injections, Michigan officials say

“All three of the potential breakthrough cases had a prior positive PCR test for COVID-19, but met the definition of a "breakthrough" case because they'd tested positive more than 45 days before the onset of symptoms, said Chelsea Wuth, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

"It is likely that these three cases were examples of prolonged viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 virus rather than reinfections with COVID-19," Wuth said in a Sunday email to The Detroit News.”

 

[margarita25]

Michigan reports 43 new school-related COVID-19 outbreaks

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

COVID-19 food assistance benefits extended for Michiganders through May 4 (clickondetroit.com)

Around 350,000 Michigan families will continue to receive additional food assistance

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

St. Clair County becomes Michigan’s latest COVID hotspot (clickondetroit.com)

St. Clair County is Michigan’s top county in new coronavirus cases per-capita.

Officials in St. Clair County said resident behavior plays a major factor in how and why COVID is spreading in the county...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Michigan sees sharp increase in children hospitalized with COVID-19 this year (clickondetroit.com)

B.1.1.7 (U.K) variant is spreading faster among children and adults, health experts say

 

[musicaljoke]

Another update from the governor. I truly hope she does not further the restrictions in Michigan. Enough! Moo.

Watch live: Gov. Whitmer update on Michigan's COVID-19 response

Do you still feel this way?

Restricting movements will bring the new case numbers down very quickly and will save lives while the vaccines continue to roll out. It would be such a great grief if anyone died of Covid because people refused to adjust their behaviour during these few critical months.