Is COVID-19 Relaxing Its Grip? Michigan’s largest health care system is beginning to loosen up on restrictions covering visitors to its hospital. Beaumont Health Systems is deciding the COVID-19 virus situation has eased enough for it to allow patients who don’t have COVID or are not suspected of having contracted the virus to begin seeing visitors. It’s a big step for the Beaumont system which is still imposing Covid restrictions on visitors, including saying no to visits from anyone who has tested virus-positive, or who has tested but does not have results back yet. Beaumont operates 8 major hospitals, mainly in Southeast Michigan, along with 167 outpatient locations. So this is no small decision.