Category: Coronavirus

Coronavirus cases in Michigan reach 334

Via WXYZ-TV:

(WXYZ) — There are now 334 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Michigan, according to new numbers from state officials on Thursday

According to the state, those numbers include test results from commercial and clinical labs who recently began providing COVID-19 testing.

Before Thursday, there were 110 cases reported.

“We are pleased to announce that we are now able to provide testing results from hospitals and other entities outside of our state laboratory,” said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health. “We knew there were additional people in Michigan with COVID-19 that had not yet been tested. This emphasizes the need to continue to practice social distancing and other community mitigation practices to help slow the spread of this disease.”

Details per County: (via WXYZ-TV)

Deaths: 3

Total number of cases: 336

Confirmed cases by county:

  • Bay – 1
  • Charlevoix – 1
  • Clinton – 1
  • Detroit – 75
  • Eaton – 2
  • Genesee – 1
  • Ingham – 6
  • Isabella – 1
  • Jackson – 1
  • Kent – 7
  • Leelanau – 1
  • Livingston – 1
  • Macomb – 55
  • Midland – 1
  • Monroe – 2
  • Montcalm – 1
  • Oakland – 105
  • Otsego – 1
  • Ottawa – 1
  • St. Clair – 4
  • Washtenaw – 14
  • Wayne – 44
  • Not reported – 10

We should expect that this number will rise. A time for games and stalling has ended, the world as we know it is going to change. You should get to know the inside of your house very well, because before it’s over with the State or Federal Government is going to impose a form of soft martial law and tell you can not leave your house.

Covid-19 Updates from Detroit: 3 dead 110 infected

The latest from WXYZ-TV in Detroit:

PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) — Two more deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in Michigan.

An 81-year-old patient died at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

“As we continue to respond aggressively to this pandemic and monitor developments, both around the world and now here in our nation, we knew we would eventually have to make this announcement,” said Bob Riney, President, Healthcare Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Henry Ford Health System. “We are deeply saddened by this outcome and our hearts remain with the patient’s family and friends.”

Another death was reported at McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac.

The patient was a woman in her 50s.

McLaren released the following statement:

On March 18, 2020, a female patient at McLaren Oakland who tested positive for COVID-19 passed away. The patient was in her 50s and had underlying health conditions prior to contracting the virus.

We extend our sympathy to the patient’s family, and we encourage everyone to adhere to CDC guidelines to help slow the spread of this highly contagious disease.

The first death was reported at a Beaumont Hospital in Wayne County. The patient, a man in his 50s, had other underlying medical conditions.

 

All previous Covid-19 coverage on this blog can be found here.

 

 

Michigan Coronavirus updates: 1 Death, 110 positive

Update: The number tested positive has now jumped to 110

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The Story via WXYZ.TV in Detroit:

You can watch the video here, sorry, no embed yet.

WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. (WXYZ) — A man in his 50s who tested positive for COVID-19 passed away at a Beaumont hospital in Wayne County, Beaumont Health announced.

The man had other underlying medical conditions, officials say.

“Our medical team went to extraordinary efforts to care for this patient and we are deeply saddened by his passing and empathize with his family,” Beaumont Health Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant said. “Our physicians, nurses and medical staff are all working together to care for COVID-19 patients. During a time like this, we are united to battle this virus. Further, we must continue to serve and care for the non-COVID-19 needs of all patients whether they are giving birth, needing essential surgery or requiring lifesaving emergency procedures.”

This is the first death of someone diagnosed with COVID-19 in Michigan.

Updated Stats via WXYZ.TV:

Deaths: 1

Total number of cases: 80

Confirmed cases by county:

Bay – 1

Charlevoix – 1

Detroit – 13

Ingham – 2

Jackson – 1

Kent – 5

Leelanau – 1

Macomb – 10

Monroe – 1

Montcalm – 1

Oakland – 23

Otsego – 1

Ottawa – 1

St. Clair – 2

Washtenaw – 7

Wayne – 10

Coronavirus updates from Detroit, Michigan

Update: This list has been updated, See here!

Original story follows:

 

All stories come via WXYZ.TV in Detroit

 

Latest numbers and break down from WXYZ TV:

Total
number of cases: 65

 

Confirmed
cases by county:

 


    • Bay – 1

 

    • Charlevoix – 1

 

    • Detroit – 8

 

    • Ingham – 2

 

    • Jackson – 1

 

    • Kent – 5

 

    • Leelanau – 1

 

    • Macomb – 8

 

    • Monroe – 1

 

    • Montcalm – 1

 

    • Oakland – 16

 

    • Otsego – 1

 

    • Ottawa – 1

 

    • St. Clair – 2

 

    • Washtenaw – 7

 

  • Wayne – 9

Our wonderful, but stupid, Governor, unleashes her inner Fascism fetish:

(WXYZ) — Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a new Executive Order reducing the number of people allowed at assemblages and events.

The new Executive Order reduces the allowable number to 50. A previous Executive Order had reduced it to 250.

It comes on the heels of new guidance from the CDC and will go into effect Tuesday, March 17 at 9:00 a.m. and will remain in effect until April 5 at 5:00 p.m.

The order provides an exception from its prohibition on assemblages for health care facilities, workplaces not open to the public, the state legislature, mass transit, the purchase of groceries or consumer goods, and the performance of agricultural or construction work.

“My number one priority remains to protect the most people we can from the spread of coronavirus,” said Governor Whitmer in a news release. “We are all better off when all of us are healthy, and that’s especially true for the most vulnerable. These aggressive actions are aimed at saving lives. My administration will continue to do everything we can to mitigate the spread of the disease and ensure our children, families, and businesses have the support they need during these challenging times. We are going to pull through this together, just as Michigan has done in the past.”

 

Michigan has done it in the past. However, we did not have some fascist Governor telling people not to gather, you bitch.

 

New York Times does a possible hit piece on Trump

I am referring to this here by the NYT:

WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Trump has minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated the risk cavalierly. On Tuesday he took to the White House podium and made a remarkable pronouncement: He knew it was a pandemic all along.

“I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters.

Here is what Mr. Trump actually said from the beginning of the pandemic.

Jan. 22, asked on CNBC whether he was concerned about a global pandemic: “No, not at all,’’ Mr. Trump said. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

Feb. 26, at a White House news conference, about the number of reported cases of the virus: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”

Feb. 27, at a White House meeting: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”

March 7, seated next to President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., club: “I’m not concerned at all.” (At least three members of the Brazilian delegation and one Trump donor at Mar-a-Lago on March 7 later tested positive for the virus.)

March 16, in the White House briefing room, warning that the outbreak would last until summer and then suddenly disappear: “So it could be right in that period of time where it, I say, wash — it washes through. Other people don’t like that term. But where it washes through.”

Now, I don’t know if the Times realizes this or not. But, it would be that President Trump did not realize how bad this virus was, until his staff informed him, of how bad the virus was and was getting in the United States. It sounds like a hit piece to me and that the NYT is simply trying to dig at the President.

But, then again, when you are dealing with a socialist paper, owned by a Mexican Millionaire, one can only expect so much. Sarcastic smileThinking smile