Credit Taylor Wizner Public health officials say the positivity rate, hospitalizations and new Covid cases are all trending downward. Current cases are close to where they were before Covid spiked in northern Michigan last fall, says Munson’s Chief Medical Officer Christine Nefcy. “For the last two days we’ve been below 5% [positivity] and we have not been there since October,” she says. “It’s really great news.” There are more than 24,000 cases in the region and more than 622,000 cases in the state, as of Wednesday. Munson has about half as many Covid patients as a month ago. “I think the mitigation efforts that our local and state health departments put into place have been 100% effective,” Nefcy says.