Welcome to week SEVEN of posting numbers for COVID-19 here in the State of Michigan as released by the Official Michigan Government website. These are the numbers released earlier this afternoon by the State of Michigan
*The total number of confirmed cases: 37,203 which is a 562 person increase from the previous day.
*Deaths: 3,274 total deceased which is a 189 person increase from the previous day. According to Fox 2 Detroit 58 of those deaths happened earlier and are now being counted.
*Currently 8.8% of those that have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 have perished. This leaves the survival rate currently at 91.2%. ( This does NOT reflect all 9.9 million people in the state, just those that have tested positive.)
*The state is reporting that only 8,342 have recovered from COVID-19 since April 24th.
*Overall Percentage of Cases by Sex
45% are Men
54% are Women
1% Unknown
*Overall Percentage of Deceased by Sex
55% of Men (change of 0 from the previous day)
45% of Women (change of 0 from the previous day)
*Detroit and Wayne County lead the state with 15,548 cases or 41.8% of the total in the state.
*Detroit and Wayne County account for 1.560 of the deaths in the state which are 48% of the current total in the state.
The city of Detroit is in the County of Wayne so that is why they are combined here.
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