COVID-19 numbers in Michigan and Ohio rose in lockstep this fall. Then the trendlines went in opposite directions.
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Seven-day-average of new coronavirus cases in Michigan from Oct. 15 through Dec. 14. Michigan implemented coronavirus-related restrictions on Nov. 18.
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As the Midwest experienced a fall surge of coronavirus, Ohio and Michigan had almost identical trendlines from mid-October through mid-November in their daily average of new COVID-19 cases.
Then third week of November, the trendlines began to diverge. Michigan’s numbers largely plateaued before trending down in December. Ohio’s caseload has continued to go up.
Ohio now ranks third in the country its seven-day average of new coronavirus cases per capita, according to a ranking by the Harvard Global Health Initiative. Michigan is 36th.
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Over the weekend, the semi-trucks rolled out of the Pfizer facility in Portage after the vaccine was developed in record time.
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The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was approved for emergency use authorization last week and now the first doses are being administered across the county. In Michigan, the University of Michigan Medicine and Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids were the first to give vaccines on Monday.
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Dr. Darryl Elmouchi got the notice Sunday night that the package was on the way. The cardiologist, who serves as president of West Michigan’s largest hospital system, got an alert through Spectrum Health’s command center, saying the initial shipment of 975 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was on the way.
“It literally felt like we were receiving a package from Amazon or Best Buy,” Elmouchi said during a Zoom call with media on Monday.
Spectrum Health’s main hospital, Butterworth, is a one-hour drive from the Pfizer facility in Portage where workers are churning out thousands of doses of the first vaccine approved in the U.S. to protect against the disease that’s now killed more than 300,000 Americans.
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