Coronavirus Watch: Are we entering another COVID-19 surge?
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Should we get ready for another COVID-19 surge?
According to Michigan health officials, it's looking like it, as cases of the BA.5 omicron subvariant start to push up and hospitalizations increase in the state and across America.
"I do believe that we are now in another surge," said Dr. Dennis Cunningham, medical director of infection control and prevention at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health.
Known cases of the virus in Michigan have risen nearly 34% in the last three weeks — from a daily average of 1,780 new cases in the week ending June 21 to 2,383 new daily cases reported in the week ending July 12, according to state data.
"We are not at the levels of previous surges," Cunningham said. "I think we are early on in this. ... We're not slammed too bad, but I do expect it's going to start looking like other surges soon."
Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, the state's chief medical officer, didn't go so far as to say the Michigan has entered another coronavirus surge just yet.
Read her take — and the full story — here.
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