[COVID19]WVBI COVID-19 Update for January 4, 2022

Although the WVBI on-air Community Calendar report is on vacation until January 10, we are providing occasional updates including for the state’s COVID-19 data releases.

More good news at the Health Center. Another seven tests run (one already in 2022) and all back negative.

Data from the state released yesterday afternoon covered five days and showed a jump in new cases and in new deaths. The new data push the seven-day running averages to 12,442 for new cases (up by 4,040) and to 91 for deaths (up by four) (including reclassifications). In our region there were 496 new cases over the five-day period and four deaths. 59 of the new cases were in Charlevoix (that’s 12 a day) as was one of the deaths. The other deaths were in Grand Traverse with one death each.

Hospitalization rates continue to run high with 80.5% of regular beds occupied state-wide and 80.6% of ICU beds filled—those rates both down a bit, but higher than the 75% said to be typical. COVID-19 occupancy numbers moved up 1.7 points for all beds to 19%, but down for ICU des to 26.4% from 28.2%.

Here are our updated data charts (data released 12/29):

		Cases	Deaths	Δ Cases	Δ Deaths
Totals	State	1568573	27286	61235	298
	Region	27577	511	496	4
	TVC Zone	47115	1047	739	14
	UP	36664	664	696	11
172 deaths were reclassified. There were 126 new deaths.
	7 Day Rolling Averages		State	12442	91
			Region	99	2
			TVC Zone	144	4
			UP	137	3
Note: Look back 2 reports and divides by 7.
	County	Cases	Deaths	Δ Cases	Δ Deaths
Region	Antrim	2390	44	46	0
	Benzie	1851	49	34	0
	Charlevoix	2361	44	59	1
	Emmet	3275	58	49	1
	Grand Traverse	10190	163	194	2
	Kalkaska	2317	47	51	0
	Leelanau	1881	37	34	0
	Otsego	3312	69	29	0
Link to data.		Δ Active			Active
		42792	Est. Active Cases (cases <31 days old)	State	232007
		171		Region	2675
		213		TVC Zone	4344
Days:	5	296		UP	3249
Count	33

Statewide Hospital Capacity Report COVID-19 1/3/2022*											WVBI Analysis
Region	All Hospital Beds	All Adult Hospital Beds	All Hospital Inpatient Beds	All Hospital Inpatient Bed Occupancy	Adult Hospital Inpatient Beds	Adult Hosp Inpatient Bed Occupancy	ICU Beds	ICU Bed Occupancy	Adult ICU Beds	Adult ICU Bed Occupancy	Hospital Inpatient Bed Occupancy Change	Hospital Inpatient Bed Occupancy Rate %	Hospital Inpatient Bed Occupancy% Change	ICU Bed Occupancy Change	ICU Bed Occupancy Rate	ICU Bed Occupancy % Change	Adult ICU Occupancy Change	Adult ICU Occupancy Rate	Adult ICU Bed Occupancy % Change




Region 1	1715	1645	1431	1163	1386	1142	218	187	201	184	-30	81.3%	-1.1%	19	85.8%	1.61%	16	91.5%	9.52%
Region 2N	6376	6077	5682	4521	5380	4356	579	444	563	432	-75	79.6%	-0.7%	-28	76.7%	-0.64%	-31	76.7%	-6.70%
Region 2S	8042	7148	6832	5688	5972	5053	976	774	688	578	-59	83.3%	-0.5%	-25	79.3%	-0.49%	-32	84.0%	-5.25%
Region 3	2983	2821	2645	2232	2488	2111	397	346	327	299	-15	84.4%	-0.5%	-29	87.2%	-1.36%	-20	91.4%	-6.27%
Region 5	1794	1679	1360	1096	1335	1073	158	127	153	123	-8	80.6%	-2.3%	-4	80.4%	-0.37%	-4	80.4%	-3.15%
Region 6	3116	2736	2799	2207	2458	1963	435	363	282	242	-143	78.8%	-4.4%	-15	83.4%	-0.72%	-4	85.8%	-1.63%
Region 7	976	925	835	581	794	563	158	120	136	110	-35	69.6%	-3.8%	-11	75.9%	-1.84%	-10	80.9%	-8.33%
Region 8	754	736	536	322	515	303	82	60	63	45	-14	60.1%	-2.6%	9	73.2%	2.80%	7	71.4%	18.42%
Totals	25756	23767	22120	17810	20328	16564	3003	2421	2413	2013	-379	80.5%	-1.4%	-84	80.6%	-0.50%	-78	83.4%	-3.73%
												Reg. Bed			ICU Bed
**Data is preliminary and subject to change.												19.0%	<–COVID-19–>		26.4%
											Munson	1	1		0	0	Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital
											McLaren	20	3		3	7	McLaren Northern Michigan – Petoskey

A note about a correction. The original version of our prior report included and relied on data averaged over five days when, in fact, the report covered two days. Those errors have been corrected.

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