Michigan's climbing numbers of daily positive COVID-19 cases slightly leveled off Thursday as the state reported 1,873 new cases, for a total of 152,862 since the pandemic began in Michigan on March 11.
This brought the seven-day average to 1,682, down slightly from Wednesday's high of 1,704 — the highest average so far.
Michigan recorded 12 new COVID-19 deaths Thursday and 31 deaths from previous days through a vital records review that were not part of the daily count, pushing the state's total confirmed deaths to 7,129.
This raises the rolling seven-day average number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 to 22 — the highest since June 11.
Earlier Thursday, 29 health system chief medical officers, chief clinical officers and administrators representing 110 of Michigan's 137 hospitals issued a statement of concern on the rising number of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Statewide, hospitalizations for confirmed cases of COVID-19 have tripled in the past four weeks, surging from 331 inpatients on Sept. 24 to 993 reported Thursday. The high point of coronavirus hospitalizations during the spring wave was 3,986.
"We want to make it clear that regardless of state law, executive orders, or local public health directives, hospitals and health care systems across the state are standing as a united front in our policies and interventions in order to fight the spread of COVID-19," the hospital leaders said.
"It is imperative that every Michigan resident join us in taking the necessary steps to prevent the spread of this deadly disease. Our hospitals and health care facilities will continue requiring staff, patients, and visitors to follow public safety protocols, including mask-wearing, screenings upon entry to our facilities, and limitation of visitors."
The health care leaders asked the public to wear a mask, stay at least 6 feet apart, avoid crowds and wash hands frequently.
The rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations puts the state's health care system at risk, leading to more crowded hospital ERs and overloaded inpatient units, they said.
"If the trend continues, doctors and nurses, therapists and custodians, food services and support staff, who have barely begun to recover from the terrible stress of the initial COVID-19 surge will suffer additional stress and risk their own infection, illness, and mortality," the medical officers said. "If Michigan doesn't change its approach to this disease, we could have crowded hospital emergency departments and approach exceeding the capacity of our hospitals as we did in Southeast Michigan this past spring."
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