With Michigan's Covid-19 case and hospitalization numbers hovering near all-time highs, the federal government will send doctors, nurses and others to support certain hospitals, the state health department said Wednesday.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had asked for help, and the federal government agreed to"send two medical teams to local hospitals to relieve doctors and nurses as they treat Covid-19 and other patients," Michigan's health department said.The 44 medical personnel -- including doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists -- will be split between Dearborn's Beaumont Hospital outside Detroit, and the Spectrum Health system in Grand Rapids, the state health department said.
That's still below the summer 2021 peak of 171,123 daily reached on September 13, but it has generally risen since late October, when the average dipped to near 70,000 a day, according to JHU data. More than a third of the country's average of new daily cases as of Wednesday was in the 12 states that the US Census Bureau says comprise the Midwest.More than 52,900 Covid-19 patients were in US hospitals as of Friday, according to HHS.
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