Clare one of three Covid-safest counties in state
Alpena, Mason the other two green coded by Harvard health study
On Thursday, there were five Michigan counties at the lowest level of COVID-related risk in Michigan. Friday, there were three. Clare County is one of them.
Of the 3,141 county units across the United States,
Clare currently has the 176th lowest rolling seven- day average of cases per 100,000 people at 0.9, according to the Harvard Global Health Initiative.
Clare County’s cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19 remained unchanged from Thursday at 105, with four deaths.
Alpena and Mason counties are the other two counties that remain coded green as of Friday.
The other two — Ontonagon and Chippewa — are in the Upper Peninsula, which Friday was sent back to Phase IV of the state’s reopening plan by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
All six of the state’s counties coded red — the color associated with the highest risk — are in the Upper Peninsula. Those include Baraga, Dickinson, Iron,
Menominee, Houghton and Delta. Iron County currently has the 26th highest sevenday rolling average of new cases per 100,000 people of 3,141 county units across the United States. It’s rate is 114.9. Iron County has 221 cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19, with five deaths.
Isabella County, which as of last Friday was still one of the most Covid-active counties in Michigan with
a moving seven- day average of new cases per 100,000 people of 10.6, has fallen to 8.4. That is themiddle of the pack for Michigan.
Three more cases were announced in Isabella County on Friday, bringing its cumulative total to 648, with 14 deaths. None of those cases were tied Maranatha Baptist Church, 5282 E. Airport Road, in Mt. Pleasant, said Steve Hall, health officer for Central Michigan District Health Department. Two people who attended services at the church have tested positive for COVID-19, said Central Michigan District Health Department in a Thursday after-noon press release. CMDHD was asked if any additional cases stemmed from the church, but received no answer by press time.
One more case was reported in Gratiot County Friday, bringing its cumulative total to 259, with 15 deaths.
Elsewhere in mid-michigan, two more cases were reported in Gladwin County, with 97 cumulative cases and two deaths; and Mecosta County, with 222 cumulative cases and three deaths. Five more cases were reported in Montcalm County, for 325 cumulative cases and seven deaths; and Midland County, with541 cases and 11 deaths.
Statewide, another 780 cases were announced for a cumulative total of 126,358, and another seven deaths for a total of 6,788. The case fatality rate is 5.4 percent.