Michigan Reports 1,575 New COVID-19 Cases Since Wednesday

Michigan Advance

March 27, 2022

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported Friday that a total of 2,076,143 Michiganders have tested positive for COVID-19 and 32,752 have died from the virus — an additional 1,575 cases and 38 deaths since Wednesday.

The new numbers combine Thursday’s and Friday’s recorded cases and deaths, with an average of 788 new confirmed cases per day. DHHS publishes COVID-19 data three times weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The deaths announced include 39 deaths identified during a vital records review. DHHS noted that the daily number of deaths in confirmed cases Friday is one fewer than the number identified by vital records review due to corrections being made to previously reported deaths.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that omicron BA.2 now accounts for 30% of new cases in the region that includes Michigan.

DHHS also reports that an additional 307,945 Michiganders have been identified as “probable” cases for COVID-19, as well as 2,820 probable deaths. The department began tracking probable cases on April 5, 2020.

Combining the state’s confirmed positive cases with probable cases brings the total up to 2,384,088 statewide cases and 35,572 deaths.

The virus has been detected in all of Michigan’s 83 counties. The state’s COVID-19 fatality rate is currently at 1.6%.

As of Monday, the state reports a total of 578 COVID-19 hospitalizations across Michigan hospitals, with 112 of those in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and an average bed occupancy of 77%.

The first two cases of COVID-19 were reported in the state on March 10, 2020. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency that day.

Johns Hopkins University reports that there are about 477.9 million confirmed cases worldwide and 6.1 million deaths. The United States makes up a significant portion of those, as 79.8 million confirmed cases and 976,241 deaths have been recorded nationally.

Michigan currently has an overall vaccination rate (one or more doses) of 67%, putting it in the bottom third of state vaccination rates. About 60% of the state’s population has been fully vaccinated.

About 77% of the entire United States population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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