Beaumont Health official believes Michigan should order more COVID-19 restrictions

Adding Beaumont Health’s medical director of infection prevention to the list of experts who believe Michigan should order more COVID-19 restrictions to slow the spread of the virus.

54 takeaways: Beaumont Officials on Michigan Restrictions, Serious Hospital Situation, COVID Statistics

Dr. Nick Gilpin said on Thursday (April 14) that he agrees with the director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, who believes Michigan should close to combat the disturbing spread of COVID-19.

“I think yes, we need to have some commitment to limit some of the activities in the community,” Gilpin said.

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He pointed out how COVID-19 statistics improved after the stay-at-home order last spring and the two-and-a-half-month break this winter.

“If you also look back at our previous rises, what was the difference?” Ask Gilpin. ‘The difference in the first boom we experienced was that there were restrictions in the community to limit the size of the event and limit indoor activities, which we know are very effective ways to transmit coronavirus. We saw it in March and April last year. We saw it in the fall and winter months in Michigan, and I believe we both bowed those thrusts in part due to active constraints. ”

Gilpin and CDC Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, both said it would be difficult for Michigan to turn its standards around simply relying on vaccinations.

“It takes six weeks for the vaccine to reach full effectiveness,” Gilpin said. For example, someone who gets the Moderna vaccine – which requires two shots 28 days apart – will not have the full benefit for six weeks.

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He said Government Gretchen Whitmer, who has said several times over the past week that she does not intend to impose more restrictions, is in a very difficult position to balance the virus with the ‘radioactive political environment’.

But with the nationwide fall and positivity rates five times higher than it was in mid-February, he thinks the right step is to issue more restrictions.

“At a time like this, in southeast Michigan and Michigan in general, I think we need to be a little more prescriptive now,” Gilpin said.