Michigan reported 1,073 new cases of coronavirus and one death on Friday, February 26.
The state has an average of 1,020 new cases of COVID-19 per day and 23 new deaths per day in the past week. The average fell slightly after four consecutive days of increases.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Michigan has reported 586,425 confirmed cases and 15,454 COVID-19-related deaths. In addition, the state reported 57,700 probable cases and 984 probable deaths, in which a doctor and / or antigen test diagnosed COVID-19, but without confirmation by the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test.
(The graph above shows the Michigan 7-day continuous average of new confirmed coronavirus cases. You can place your cursor over a bar to see the number. You can also click the option just below the title to see the actual number of new cases reported per day.)
Seventy of Michigan’s 83 counties reported new cases of coronavirus on Friday. Wayne led in new cases with 150, while Oakland and Kent reported 114 and 76, respectively.
Other counties with important reports included Macomb with 72, Genesee with 56, Kalamazoo with 54, Washtenaw with 46, Ingham with 34 and Ottawa and Lenawee with 32 each.
Three counties reported a new death; however, two counties removed a death, totaling a new death on Friday. Counties reporting a new death include Eaton, Ionia and Houghton, while Wayne and Lenawee removed one death each.
(The graph above shows the 7-day moving average of deaths involving confirmed cases of coronavirus in Michigan. You can place your cursor over a bar to see the number. You can also click the option just below the title to see the real number of new deaths reported per day.)
State hospitals were treating 824 patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 on Friday, including 195 patients in the ICU. This is less than February 19, when hospitals were treating 843 of these patients, with 217 in the ICU.
Of the 41,330 diagnostic tests processed Thursday, 2.99% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The positivity rate remained below 3% for two days, with Wednesday reporting a rate of 2.92%. The average rate of positivity in the last seven days is 3.4%.
Note: the graph below rounds the positivity rate to the nearest whole number.
On Wednesday, Michigan administered more than 2.05 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This includes about 1.31 million first doses and 740,038 second doses. Pfizer and Moderna recommend two doses of vaccine given weeks apart.
Case report
The first is a graph showing new cases reported to the state each day for the past 30 days. This is based on when a confirmed coronavirus test is reported to the state, which means that the patient fell ill days earlier.
You can access a chart for any county and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
(In some cases, a county reported a negative number (decline) in new daily cases, after a retroactive reclassification by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. In those cases, we subtract cases from the previous date and put 0 on the reported date.)
The next graph below shows new cases in the last 30 days based on the onset of symptoms. In this graph, the numbers for the most recent days are incomplete due to the time interval between people getting sick and getting a confirmed result from the coronavirus test, which can take up to a week or more.
You can access a chart for any county and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
For more state data, visit the MLive coronavirus data page, here.
To find a test site near you, check your state’s online test finder here, send an email to [email protected] or call 888-535-6136 between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays.
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