Over the past month, Michigan has seen a rise in new COVID-19 infections – though the spike hasn’t been as dramatic as the Omicron surge from earlier this year.
The state’s Chief Medical Executive Doctor Natasha Bagdasarian says she’s not overly concerned about another increase in infections following the long Memorial Day weekend. “So a lot of this really depends on people's behavior. It really depends on how many people are traveling, how many people are gathering, whether people are using some of those mitigation strategies. And then of course, vaccine status plays a lot into this and into how many of these cases are going to be more severe and require hospitalization, for example,” she says.
Doctor Bagdasarian says COVID-prediction models indicate numbers will drop over the summer, with another rise anticipated once kids go back to school.
The most recent numbers from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says that the daily number of new infections has dropped to around 3,700.
