Welcome to week THIRTY-ONE 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: 130,842 which is a 1016 person increase from the previous day. Deaths: 6,847 total deceased which is a 9 person increase from the previous day.

*Currently 5.2% of those who have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 have perished. This leaves the survival rate currently at 94.8%. (This does NOT reflect all 9.9 million people in the state, just those who have tested positive.)

*The state is reporting that only 99,521 have recovered from COVID-19 since October 2nd.

*Overall Percentage of Cases by Sex:

47% are Men

53% are Women

1% Unknown

*Overall Percentage of Deceased by Sex:

52% of Men (change of 0% from the previous day)

47% of Women (change of 0% from the previous day)

**At the suggestion of a reader of these posts, I will also be combining Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County totals being that is the bulk of Metro Detroit.**

*Combined tri-county area (including Detroit) number of cases confirmed 65,680 which accounts for 50.1% of the cases in the state.

*Combined tri-county area (including Detroit) number of deaths confirmed 4,981 which accounts for 72.7% of the deaths in the state.

*Detroit and Wayne County lead the state with 33,682 cases or 25.7% of the total in the state.

*Detroit and Wayne County account for 2,834 of the deaths in the state which are 41.3% 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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