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An international study that identified a dramatic increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) preceding and paralleling the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that OHCA is yet another example of the virus s myriad multisystemic effects and a signal of upcoming community surges.
In the observational study, published today in the
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EClinicalMedicine, emergency services medical directors in 50 large cities in the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, and New Zealand reported tallies of monthly OCHAs among adults in their respective jurisdictions from January to June 2020 and compared them with numbers from the same periods in 2018 and 2019.
They authors of the study found that, among all 50 cities, OHCA cases rose, on average, 59% in April 2020, with cases climbing from a monthly mean of 144 cases in 2018 and 2019 to 231 in 2020. In 34 of 50 US states, OHCAs spiked over 20% that month compared with April 2018 and 2019, mirroring COVID
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Michigan reports highest daily COVID-19 daily case figure since early December Print this article
Michigan surpassed 8,000 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest single-day report in the state since early December.
State statistics showed 8,413 cases recorded on Saturday, which is a significant uptick over the 563 reported eight weeks ago, according to CNN. That is the highest number since Dec. 7, when there were 9,350 daily cases reported.
In total, Michigan has had more than 760,000 cases and more than 17,000 deaths associated with the virus. Nearly 2 million people in the state have been vaccinated.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, blamed upticks in her state on spring break travel, claiming that state residents were flying into states with looser lockdown restrictions and bringing it back to Michigan.
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