The anticipated spike in COVID-19 cases after Thanksgiving doesn’t seem to have materialized in Ingham County.
It was expected that people would gather for the Thanksgiving holiday and then COVID would spread. Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail says that spike in positive cases hasn’t appeared.
She says some may see the leveling off as a reason to ignore safety measures.
“For the people who disregarded all the rules and said I’m traveling anyway, I’m having my gathering anyway, they’re going to say see? That wasn’t a problem after all, so we’re going to do it again,” said Vail.
But Vail also thinks people who stayed home are likely to do that again over Christmas and New Year’s.
Currently, 133 people are hospitalized with COVID at Sparrow and McLaren hospitals in Lansing, with 21 in intensive care and 25 on ventilators.