WVBI COVID-19 Update for February 14, 2022

On the COVID-19 front, yet another no news is good news day for the Health Center. No new tests. No tests pending. And we are now down to three positive tests on the island that are less two weeks old.

There was good news in the data from the state on Friday, too. There were just under 3,000 new cases a day in the two days covered by their report and 21 new deaths a day with 110 deaths reclassified from prior dates. That pushes the seven-day averages down to 3,306 for new cases and to 74 for deaths, including reclassifications. For new cases, those are numbers like we were seeing back in November. We didn’t see a similar big jump in deaths, thankfully, but those numbers are trending down as well. There were 76 new cases a day in our region and four deaths total. 17 of the new cases were in Charlevoix. The deaths were in Grand Traverse with two and Emmet and Otsego with one each. Hospital utilization rates continue to look better. Over numbers are a little above normal, but way off from the highs we had been seeing. SaCOVID-19 occupancy remains high, but again well off the numbers we had been seeing—down from the mid-twenties into the teens. No patients at Munson in Charlevoix. 16 at McLaren in Petoskey, but none in their I-C-U.

As we reported last Friday, the Health Department of Northwest Michigan has lifted their mask mandate for schools. That mandate is the reason B-I-C-S students have been wearing masks all year. The School Board meets tonight for their regular monthly meeting and whether to drop the mandate will be on the agenda. B-I-C-S Superintendent and Principal Wil Cwikiel says that the board had planned to start the school year without masks taking an adaptable approach with masking requirements only if there were wide community spread events, so that may be a clue as to where they are headed. Mask mandates are dropping across the state, but mostly in northern Michigan. So far eight counties are doing away with them including six up north.

		Cases	Deaths	Δ Cases	Δ Deaths
Totals	State	2032362	30899	5716	152
	Region	34615	568	152	4
	TVC Zone	58117	1160	248	5
	UP	49806	766	230	6
	Current Report		Averages	7 Day
	2858	76	State	3306	74
	76	2	Region	79	2
	124	3	TVC Zone	144	3
	115	3	UP	120	1
110 deaths were reclassified. There were 42 new deaths.
	County	Cases	Deaths	Δ Cases	Δ Deaths
Region	Antrim	2929	47	11	0
	Benzie	2362	55	11	0
	Charlevoix	2933	45	17	0
	Emmet	4076	68	16	1
	Grand Traverse	13014	183	50	2
	Kalkaska	2925	50	20	0
	Leelanau	2425	42	7	0
	Otsego	3951	78	20	1
Link to data.		Δ Active			Active
		-31398	Est. Active Cases (cases <31 days old)	State	285655
		-284		Region	5112
		-368		TVC Zone	8219
Days:	2	-788		UP	8896
Count	30

Statewide Hospital Capacity Report COVID-19 2/11/2022*											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	All Inpatient Pediatric Beds	Pediatric Inpatient Bed Occupancy	ICU Beds	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	Pediatric Occupancy Change	Pediatric Occupancy Rate	Pediatric Bed Occupancy % Change




Region 1	1794	1663	1532	1289	1427	1205	75	46	202	156	45	84.1%	1.4%	115	77.2%	5.94%	12	61.3%	6.67%
Region 2N	6469	6161	5731	4630	5420	4423	110	44	614	454	113	80.8%	1.0%	399	73.9%	-4.22%	-22	40.0%	-21.80%
Region 2S	7952	7106	6825	5788	5978	5091	499	359	986	782	-24	84.8%	-0.3%	415	79.3%	-0.48%	4	71.9%	-3.42%
Region 3	2947	2825	2574	2166	2433	2066	62	29	392	333	-34	84.1%	-1.1%	303	84.9%	0.06%	-4	46.8%	-4.95%
Region 5	1734	1674	1328	1087	1305	1063	23	18	186	134	-57	81.9%	0.3%	116	72.0%	-4.46%	-6	78.3%	0.00%
Region 6	3287	2737	2808	2398	2436	2098	251	187	431	364	-18	85.4%	-0.3%	162	84.5%	-0.34%	-4	74.5%	-5.66%
Region 7	943	892	820	674	778	651	20	10	155	134	15	82.2%	1.6%	128	86.5%	2.69%	5	50.0%	20.00%
Region 8	752	734	543	311	521	298	2	2	82	53	-18	57.3%	-3.3%	52	64.6%	-0.80%	0	100.0%	0.00%
Totals	25878	23792	22161	18343	20298	16895	1042	695	3048	2410	22	82.8%	0.1%	1,690	79.1%	-0.83%	-15	66.7%	-4.94%
												Reg. Bed			ICU Bed
*Data is preliminary and subject to change.												12.0%	<–COVID-19–>		16.8%
											Munson	0	0		0	0	Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital
											McLaren	16	0		0	0	McLaren Northern Michigan – Petoskey