The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced 17,003 new positive coronavirus test results and 280 new COVID-related deaths over the two-day period of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Off those deaths, more than half (143) were added to the state total by checking old death certificates and matching them to previous positive COVID test results.
There are 3,901 adults and 47 kids hospitalized with COVID around Michigan, with 808 in Intensive Care Units and 493 on breathing ventilators.
Here in the Upper Peninsula, there are 68 people hospitalized with COVID-19, with 24 in ICU’s and seven on ventilators. There were seven new deaths reported in the U.P.: two each in Delta and Houghton Counties, and one each in Alger, Dickinson, and Iron Counties.
There were 450 new cases in the Upper Peninsula over the past two days, with 104 of them in Houghton County and 75 in Marquette County. There were 45 new cases in Delta County and 42 were reported in Dickinson County.
NEW U.P. CASES REPORTED TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY
Alger 7 (and 1 new death)
Baraga 13
Chippewa 33
Delta 45 (and 2 new deaths)
Dickinson 42 (and 1 new death)
Gogebic 32
Houghton 104 (and 2 new deaths)
Iron 21 (and 1 new death)
Keweenaw 7
Luce 4
Mackinac 16
Marquette 75
Menominee 32
Ontonagon 6
Schoolcraft 13
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