No deaths from the Coronavirus have been reported in Allegan County for at least three weeks, but there are some disturbing trends that have surfaced recently.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Michigan and in the county have increased over the past several weeks. This, in light of the state health department easing restrictions on gathering in restaurants and opening the schools.
The Dashboard published by the Allegan County Health Department Friday reported 23 cases that day, more than triple the 7.7 average daily case number on Feb. 21. A total of 219 positive cases have been identified over the past two weeks.
Other troubling developments include the lack of activity of high school basketball teams at the end of the regular season. Hopkins and Wayland shut down the remainder of their regular seasons in the last two weeks and Martin did not play its last regularly scheduled game of the season against Gobles Friday.
Plans are in still in place for basketball districts in Wayland, Hopkins and Martin in the coming week.
Furthermore, there have been reports that the United Kingdom’s Covid variant, the highly contagious B.1.1.7, has been identified somewhere in the county.
The Health Department reported 189 hospitalizations as of March 19, 7,103 people recovered from the disease, and 118 deaths since the pandemic was declared a little more than a year ago. Total tests now have eclipsed 100,000.
The positivity rate coming back from tests is at 6.4 percent, significantly more than a couple of weeks ago when it hovered above 4%.
I by no means am knowledgeable in this field, but do have an opinion. It tends to make sense as restrictions are eased cases and deaths may ” rollercoaster ” as herd immunity progresses. Just because you vaccine the whole herd doesn’t mean no one will get the virus or possibly die.
Just one man’s opinion
Guess shut downs, masks, distancing, vindictive governors can’t stop the virus. Maybe Florida, Texas. South Dakota weren’t foolish after all the venom spread because they kept their economies open?
Our governor has the reds for anyone not obeying her directives. Example: restaurant owner arrested by State Police after a warrant for her arrest issued by Benson because she wouldn’t shut down or limit her customers. Who looks foolish now? Both Whitmer and Benson look small in their tirade.
It’s you who looks foolish. Our numbers decline until restaurants, schools, etc. open up. Do you see the how the two are related or are you blinded by your hatred of the left?
The other states are wide open and have lower rates of infection and death. Florida and Texas have much larger populations. I’m not blinded by hate of the left, however, you must be blinded by logic.
Here’s some logic: Florida and Texas have a much warmer climate than northern states and do not experience the winter illness season to the extent that we do. Additionally both state governments are well-documented for their continual efforts to underreport their COVID cases. If trumpees think the Confederate states are so much more desirable than Michigan, maybe you all should move south.
Yeah Jakie, South Dakota is a real warm state, but they stayed open. If using your logic, Michigan should be the worst state in the Union for Covid.
Amazing that you Liberal/Socialists/Communist/
Marxists still think of the southern states as Confederate states. I always wonder what might have happened if General Lee had ordered General Jackson to march on Washington D.C. after Antietam. The Capitol was wide open, with all blue bellies chasing Lee. If Lee had the same amount of men and unending supplies like the North, it would have ended differently as the South had superior officers with strategic abilities far superior to the North officers.
FL has had a total of 2,004,354 Covid cases. That is 9,332 cases per 100,000 people.
TX has had a total of 2,752,029 cases, which is 9,491 cases per 100,000 people.
SD has had a total of 115,723 cases. That works out to 13,081 cases per 100,000 people.
Michigan has had a total of 690,890 total cases which is 6,918 cases per 100,000 people. We could do much better, but we are still better off than a lot of states.
This information is from the New York Times. They have been keeping a daily running total of every Covid case in every state since the beginning of the pandemic. If anyone would like to see some more positive statistics, the Lansing State Journal keeps a daily running total of Covid vaccines given in every state.
Califonia has been almost completely locked down, still has 9,217 cases per 100,000. Based on the amounts per 100,000 compared to states without lockdowns, it is pretty clear now that the economic damage done by lockdowns vs. encouraging social distancing and masks didn’t save enough lives to be anywhere close to worth it. The virus is highly contagious and spread anyway.
Worse still, Governors in NY, Michigan and PA needlessly caused thousands of additional deaths by not prioritizing the isolation of vulnerable elderly by instead importing recovering COVID patients to convalesce with them in nursing homes.
And probably none of the governors in NY, MI, or PA will suffer from their poor decisions to send infected persons to nursing homes. Why is it those states have Democrat leadership with such poor judgment?
Rob, your “facts” (really, the fake media NYT!) are questionable. If you have 5 million people infected but nobody dies, who cares about the cases per 100,000? Look a total deaths per infected, then you have some real facts. But that wouldn’t fit your BS narrative.