Deadline Detroit | Starkman: Michigan Hospitals Among Nation s Safest, but Beware of Henry Ford Detroit and Beaumont Royal Oak
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Deadline Detroit | Covid hospital patient totals drop notably in Metro Detroit and Michigan since mid-April
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by Alan Stamm The number of adults with Covid infections in Michigan hospitals has declined by more than 2,000 over the past four weeks. State data posted Thursday shows 2,158 hospitalized patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus down 48% from April 14, when 4,187 beds held virus victims. Intensive care units, which had 864 Covid cases in mid-April, were treating 613 as of Thursday afternoon s tally from the Department of Health and Human Services. That s a 29% drop. Deadline Detroit compared figures for April 14 with the latest update. Weekly data shows the number of in-patients with confirmed or suspected Covid, the number in intensive care and overall bed occupancy rates at every Michigan hospital.
Michigan coronavirus data for Monday, April 19: Two hopeful signs in the numbers
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After weeks of unnerving increases in new coronavirus cases and positivity rates in Michigan, there are a couple signs the numbers may be cresting.
The most hopeful sign: The statewide positivity rate on coronavirus diagnostic tests is dropping. It was 12.1% for test results reported Friday, April 16, with a seven-day average of 14.3%. The former was the lowest one-day rate since March 26, and the latter was the lowest since April 1.
The number of daily new cases also seems to be plateauing: The seven-day average rose only 2.8% last week, April 11-17, compared to the week before. And that increase is largely explained by a spike in testing:There were 22% more coronavirus tests performed last week (an average of 51,271 a day) compared to the previous seven days (41,960 daily average).