Michigan reported 4,454 new cases of coronavirus and 16 additional deaths on Wednesday, March 24.
The state has an average of 3,122 new cases of COVID-19 per day and 18 new deaths per day in the past week. This marks 13 consecutive days of increase in the case average.
This is the first time that the state has recorded an average of more than 3,000 cases since January 12 and the highest one-day average since registering 3,126 on January 12.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Michigan has reported 637,645 confirmed cases and 15,935 COVID-19-related deaths. In addition, the state reported 68,905 probable cases and 1,014 probable deaths, in which a physician and / or antigen test considered COVID-19, but no confirmatory CRP 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.)
Eighty of Michigan’s 83 counties reported new cases on Wednesday. Wayne County led in new cases with 708, with the next closest being Macomb with 626 and Oakland with 560. Other counties with important reports included Kent with 271, Genesee with 174, St. Clair with 166, Ingham with 155, Jackson with 141, Ottawa with 138 and Kalamazoo with 129.
Thirteen counties reported new deaths, with Wayne reporting three others. County Wexford reported two, while Oakland, Kent, Genesee, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Washtenaw, Grand Traverse, Calhoun, Montcalm, Roscommon and Menominee reported one.
(The graph above shows the 7-day continuous average of deaths involving confirmed coronavirus cases 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 actual number of deaths. new deaths reported per day.)
Hospitals across the state were treating 1,729 patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, including 375 patients in the ICU. These totals represent a jump of 1,103 hospitalizations and 273 in the ICU last Wednesday, March 17th.
Of the 33,523 diagnostic tests processed on Wednesday, 11.31% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The average rate of positivity in the last seven days is 9.23%.
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 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 lag between people getting sick and getting the result of the confirmed 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 data across the state, visit the MLive coronavirus data page, here.
To find a test site near you, check the 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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