Michigan public health officials reported Friday 18,443 new COVID-19 cases from Thursday and Friday and 277 additional virus deaths.
That case total brought the state’s total confirmed number of cases to 1,336,566 and deaths to 24,367 since the onset of the pandemic. Of the 277 deaths announced Friday, 169 were identified during a vital records review.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) publishes new case, death, and vaccination numbers every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with new school outbreak-related data published every Monday.
Locally, since Wednesday, Macomb County has reported 1,816 new cases and 21 additional deaths. In Oakland County, there were 1,940 new cases and 19 additional deaths. In Wayne County, there were 1,943 new cases and 53 additional deaths.
The state’s vaccination coverage rate for residents 5 and older that have had at least one shot is at 61.4%, up 0.2% since Monday. The vaccination rate for those with at least two shots of Moderna, Pfizer or one shot of Johnson & Johnson, was at 55.6%.
On Thursday, a third 22-member medical team from the U.S. military was being deployed to Michigan, where hospitals are grappling with record-high numbers of COVID-19 patients amid the state’s fourth surge of infections.
The nurses, doctors, and respiratory therapists will assist Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw starting Dec. 12, the state health department said Thursday. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called it “much-needed relief.” Two other 22-member teams began treating patients in Grand Rapids and Dearborn this week during the spike that also is hitting other states in the Midwest and New England.
More than 4,500 people, most of them unvaccinated, were hospitalized in Michigan with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases as of Wednesday. The 4,269 adults with confirmed infection surpassed the state’s previous pandemic high that was reported two days earlier.
The seven-day daily death average was 79 earlier this week, which was up from 66 in mid-November, according to Johns Hopkins University. The daily death toll is similar to what it was in the spring but isn’t as high as it was last winter.
— The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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