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ESCANABA As of Tuesday, the U.P. had 16,086 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (an increase of 13 cases in 24 hours), 3,934 probable cases, 374 deaths and 89 proba
Carol Thompson, Lansing State Journal
LANSING Michigan public health officials unveiled a new tool to track and stop coronavirus spread as cases surged last fall: a smartphone app that could give early warnings to people who are exposed to the virus and teach them the basics of isolating and testing.
But the digital contact tracing tool encountered one of the same problems faced by living, breathing contact tracers.
People ignored it.
Contact tracers have reported difficulty reaching people to warn them about coronavirus exposure or, if they get through, finding uncooperative people on the other end of the line.
Likewise, Michigan is only about halfway to an early goal state health officials identified for downloads of MI COVID Alert, the contract tracing app.
In one word, YES! And, that s according to U of M, the Michigan Disease Surveillance System, Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker and John Hopkins University Coronavirus database. That s a group of some pretty high-end experts.
It s been a tough two to three months for sure, and it certainly isn t over yet. The frustration rate among all of us has been high with some acting out exclaiming that their rights are being violated. But the information collected is showing the the Michigan tough love has been working, and keeping Michiganders alive, whether they want to live or not.
The modeling data collected showed that between Nov. 15 and Jan. 8, about 109,000 cases were prevented. Based on Michigan’s rate of fatality of 2.6%, that translates to 2,800 lives saved.