Detroit is reporting more than 10-thousand cases of COVID-19. There is some good news.
Public health director Denise Fair says while the case numbers are high… the weekly trend is going down… as Detroiters practice social distancing and wear masks in public. The city’s health department is working to stop the spread of the disease among the elderly. Fair says so far… two-percent of residents living in senior apartments have tested positive for COVID-19.
“This is really encouraging. See, the infection rate is a lot lower than what we saw in our nursing homes, our homeless shelters, our adult foster care which were all in congregate settings.”
Fair says the facilities likely have lower rates as residents are living alone. She says it will take five weeks to test all eight-thousand residents living in Detroit’s senior apartments.