Fourteen new cases, no deaths reported
Fourteen new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported across mid-michigan, with half of them in Gratiot County. No new deaths were reported.
An additional seven confirmed cases of the disease were reported in Gratiot County, bringing its cumulative total to 2,469, with 99 deaths.
Four cases were confirmed in Clare County, bringing its cumulative total to 1,411, with 68 deaths. Three new confirmed cases were reported in Isabella County for a cumulative total of 3,585, with 72 deaths.
All three counties mostly continue to have better-than-state average metrics for spread.
The only place where a midmichigan county had a higher figure than the state average was on seven-day rolling average for rate of positive diagnostic test re
sults.
Clare County’s rate, using data from Wednesday and six days prior, was 3.9 percent. Statewide, an average of 3.88 percent of diagnostic tests returned a positive result.
Gratiot County’s average over the same time span was 1.29 percent; in Isabella, it was 2.73.
Anything under 3 percent is considered a marker for low spread.
All three counties had been rolling seven-day average confirmed and probable cases per 100,000 people on a county-level dashboard hosted by Brown University’s School of Public Health.
Isabella’s was the lowest at 7.4 cases per 100,000 people, Clare’s average was 8.8 and Gratiot’s was 9.8. The statewide average is 13.4.
Anything between 1 and 9 is in a category labeled Community Spread, and the dashboard recommends rigorous test-andtrace programs. On an accompanying map, those counties are color-coded yellow.
Averages between 10 and 24 are in a category labeled Accelerated Spread, and the dashboard recommends stay-at-home orders and rigorous test-and-trace programs. Those places are color coded orange on the map.
Elsewhere in mid-michigan, no new deaths were reported, with new and cumulative cases and deaths as follows:
• In Gladwin County, an additional four confirmed cases were reported for a cumulative total of 1,259, with 40 deaths;
• In Mecosta County, an additional four cases were reported for a cumulative total of 1,933, with 19 deaths;
• In Midland County, an additional 18 cases were reported for a cumulative total of 4,458, with 62 deaths; and,
• In Montcalm County, an additional five cases were reported for a cumulative total of 3,265, with 86 deaths.
Statewide, another 37 deaths were reported for a total of 15,600 and another 1,526 cases were reported for a cumulative total of 593,279. Of those deaths, 29 were discovered during a review of death certificates from the last 30 days.