Michigan COVID-19 Death Count Tops 7k, Numbers On The Rise

The accuracy of figures is still being brought into question, however, with 15 of the deaths ‘yesterday‘ being added as a review of previous statistics and data according to sources.

Over the past week, the average number of daily cases is now nearing 1,500 – a high not seen since the early days of the pandemic when average daily cases numbered 1,395 in the second week of April.

“You may not see yet the rise in hospitalizations and deaths because it depends a lot on the age group getting it,” professor of epidemiology at Michigan State University, Nigel Paneth said, adding “(B)ut it doesn’t stay that way. “(Infected people) go to the store, next thing you know, some older person gets infected — and it doesn’t have to be an older person. Young people die. It happens.”

Across the state of almost 10 million,104,271 are now being recorded as having recovered from the virus.

However, with the state one of America’s perennial ‘swing-states’ in U.S. elections, and with the U.S. Presidential election just over a fortnight away with both candidates encouraging their supporters across Michigan to canvass neighbours and get out and vote, the figures may be compounded by mass gatherings at polling stations as we move into November and the holiday season.

Across the wider U.S. at time of typing, the total number of cases stands at 8,341,467, with 224,274 having died as a result of their infection.