Michigan reported 1,073 new cases of coronavirus and one death Friday, February 26th.
The state has averaged 1,020 new COVID-19 cases per day and 23 new deaths per day during the past week. The average is slightly lower after four consecutive days of gains.
Since the onset of the pandemic, Michigan has reported 586,425 confirmed cases and 15,454 deaths related to COVID-19. In addition, the state reported 57,700 probable cases and 984 probable deaths, in which a physician and / or antigen test made a COVID-19 diagnosis, but without confirmation by PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test.
(The chart above shows the 7-day moving average number of newly confirmed cases of coronavirus in Michigan. You can place your cursor over a bar to see the number. You can also click on the option below the heading to see the actual number of new to see cases reported during the day.)
Seventy of 83 counties in Michigan reported new cases of coronavirus on Friday. Wayne led in 150 new cases, while Oakland and Kent reported 114 and 76, respectively.
Other provinces with the best reporters were Macomb with 72, Genesee with 56, Kalamazoo with 54, Washtenaw with 46, Ingham with 34 and Ottawa and Lenawee with 32 each.
Three provinces reported a new death; however, two provinces removed one death, making Friday’s total one new death. In provinces a new death has been reported include Eaton, Ionia and Houghton, while Wayne and Lenawee have each removed one death.
(The chart above shows the 7-day average average number of deaths in Michigan in which confirmed coronavirus cases occur. You can place your cursor over a partner to see the number. You can also click on the option just below the heading to see the actual number new deaths reported per day.)
Statewide hospitals on Friday treated 824 patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, including 195 patients in the ICU. It was down from February 19 when hospitals treated 843 such patients, with 217 in the ICU.
Of the 41,330 diagnostic tests processed on Thursday, 2.99% came positive for SARS-CoV-2. The positivity rate remained below 3% for two days, with a rate of 2.92% on Wednesday. The average positivity rate over the past seven days is 3.4%.
Note: the graph below reduces the positivity rate to the nearest whole number.
As of Wednesday, Michigan has administered more than 2.05 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. This includes approximately 1.31 million first doses and 740,038 second doses. Pfizer and Moderna recommend two doses of vaccine administered week after week.
Case Report
First is a graph showing new cases that have been reported to the state every day for the past 30 days. This is based on the fact that a confirmed coronavirus test is reported to the state, which means that the patient first became ill days before.
You can call up a chart for each country and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
(In some cases, a state reported a negative number (decrease) in daily new cases, following a reclassification by the Department of Health and Human Services in Michigan. In such cases, we deducted cases from the previous date and 0 in the reported date.)
The following graph below shows new cases for the past 30 days based on the onset of symptoms. In this graph, the numbers for the past few days are incomplete due to the delay time between people getting sick and getting a confirmed coronavirus test result, which can last up to a week or longer.
You can call up a chart for each country and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
Visit MLive’s coronavirus database here for more information across the country.
To find a test site in your area, visit the state’s online test finder here, send an email to [email protected], or call 888-535-6136 between 8am and 5pm on weekdays .
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