Michigan Outbreak Bolsters Fear That Conservative Outposts Will Prolong Pandemic
Medical staff watch and advise walk-in patients who received their COVID-19 vaccination at a pop-up clinic at Western International High School on April 12, 2021, in Detroit, Michigan.
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When Kathryn Watkins goes shopping these days, she doesnât bring her three young children. There are just too many people not wearing masks in her southern Michigan town of Hillsdale.
At some stores, ânot even the employees are wearing them anymore,â said Watkins, who estimates about 30% of shoppers wear masks, down from around 70% earlier in the pandemic. âThereâs a complete disregard for the very real fact that they could wind up infecting someone.â
Michigan s COVID-19 case rate appears to have peaked as surge slows Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press
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Michigan s coronavirus case rate has begun to fall, dropping 12.5% over the last week, suggesting the state s third surge the worst in the U.S. may be waning.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday that the seven-day average of new cases in Michigan fell from 551.8 per 100,000 people on April 14 to 483 per 100,000 Wednesday. It s pretty early in the dip to say it s going to be sustained, said Ryan Malosh, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, but it does look like we have peaked.
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I am a social epidemiologist and postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. My research lies at the intersection of social epidemiology, gerontology and public health. I completed my doctorate in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 2018.