Michigan reported 1,484 new cases of coronavirus and three new deaths between Sunday and Monday, February 21-22.
This means that the average daily increase in cases over the past two days was 742.
The state has an average of 845 new cases of COVID-19 per day and 29 new deaths per day in the past week.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Michigan has reported 581,403 confirmed cases and 15,362 COVID-19-related deaths. In addition, the state reported 56,525 probable cases and 981 probable deaths, in which a physician and / or antigen test considered COVID-19, but no confirmatory PCR test was performed.
(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.)
Sixty-six of Michigan’s 83 counties have reported new cases in the past two days. Wayne County led in new cases with 270, the next closest being Oakland and Macomb with 137 and 135, respectively.
Other counties with major reports included Kent with 101 additional cases, Washtenaw with 85, Ingham with 49, Genesee with 44, Saginaw and Ottawa with 37 and Berrien with 32.
Five counties reported a new death each, including Washtenaw, Berrien, Bay, Barry and Sanilac. Jackson and Eaton counties removed one death from each previously reported.
(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.)
Hospitals across the state were treating 827 patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 on Monday, including 225 patients in the ICU. The number decreased from February 15, when hospitals were treating 843 patients, but increased from 217 in the ICU during the same period.
Of the 43,974 diagnostic tests processed in the past two days, 4.15% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The average rate of positivity in the last seven days is 3.58%.
On Monday, Michigan administered more than 1.97 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This includes about 1.28 million first doses and 670,899 second doses. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines recommend two doses 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 first became ill days before.
You can call 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 lag between people getting sick and getting a result of the confirmed coronavirus test, which can take up to a week or more.
You can call 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 the state’s online test locator here, send an email to [email protected] or call 888-535-6136 between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays.
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