WVBI COVID-19 Update for February24, 2022

Lisa Peacock’s resignation as director of the Health Department of Northwest Michigan is in the news statewide today. She resigned late Tuesday citing a “hostile work environment” created by her board and her health as reasons for the departure. Some members of health department board tried to remove her multiple times last year. Peacock filed a complaint with the Attorney General Dana Nessel alleging that they encouraged people to bully her. At the last meeting of the board, a closed session was held that presumably concerned legal matters concerning Peacock, but there has been no word on what actually transpired. Peacock also serves as health officer for Benzie and Leelanau counties in addition to the counties covered by the Health Department of Northwest Michigan. It isn’t clear whether she will continue in her roles there. Peacock says her last day will be April 29^th. In a press release issued yesterday, the Health Department board said she will work on transition matters during that time. A copy of the Board’s press release is available at a link in today’s script online

On COVID-19 data front today, nothing new from the Health Center. Their tally has no positive tests in the last two weeks and no tests pending.

Data from the state released yesterday continues to show good trends. Over the five days covered by the report there were an average of 1,394 new cases a day and 13 deaths a day. 250 reclassified deaths from prior dates were also reported. That pushes the seven-day averages down to 1,186 new cases a day and 62 deaths a day including reclassifications. In our region there were 29 new cases a day and eight deaths over the five days. Charlevoix had six new cases and no deaths. The deaths were in Emmet with three, Grand Traverse with two and Antrim, Leelanau and Otsego with one each. Overall hospital utilization is a little high for all beds, but near normal for I-C-U beds. COVID-19 occupancy remains high, but there was a dramatic drop for I-C-U beds from 17.1% to 9.8%. Locally, no patients at Munson in Charlevoix. McLaren in Petoskey is down four patients overall, but now has three patients in their I-C-U, up from none.

		Cases	Deaths	Δ Cases	Δ Deaths
Totals	State	2051771	31695	5931	312
	Region	35142	584	147	8
	TVC Zone	59023	1191	262	12
	UP	50507	795	205	10
	Current Report		Averages	7 Day
	1186	62	State	1394	61
	29	2	Region	37	1
	52	2	TVC Zone	65	2
	41	2	UP	51	2
250 deaths were reclassified. There were 62 new deaths.
	County	Cases	Deaths	Δ Cases	Δ Deaths
Region	Antrim	2978	49	17	1
	Benzie	2391	56	7	0
	Charlevoix	2954	45	6	0
	Emmet	4125	72	9	3
	Grand Traverse	13252	188	65	2
	Kalkaska	2957	51	12	0
	Leelanau	2463	43	8	1
	Otsego	4022	80	23	1
Link to data.		Δ Active			Active
		-21492	Est. Active Cases (cases <31 days old)	State	118709
		-347		Region	2590
		-539		TVC Zone	4513
Days:	5	-694		UP	3810
Count	30

Statewide Hospital Capacity Report COVID-19 2/23/2022*											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	1840	1706	1534	1256	1426	1173	75	44	198	149	70	81.9%	3.0%	116	75.3%	7.92%	15	58.7%	14.67%
Region 2N	6413	6105	5646	4477	5335	4243	110	56	604	439	-95	79.3%	-1.7%	387	72.7%	-1.69%	-2	50.9%	3.64%
Region 2S	7962	7102	6850	5747	5990	5007	505	378	980	770	1	83.9%	-0.3%	373	78.6%	-1.43%	-14	74.9%	-2.24%
Region 3	2949	2846	2573	2179	2443	2098	54	25	390	306	42	84.7%	0.3%	289	78.5%	-5.09%	-9	46.3%	14.81%
Region 5	1767	1696	1351	1126	1317	1098	34	28	187	133	64	83.3%	2.8%	109	71.1%	0.01%	5	82.4%	-0.41%
Region 6	3278	2702	2843	2394	2447	2074	249	199	413	349	30	84.2%	0.3%	137	84.5%	0.04%	1	79.9%	-4.88%
Region 7	949	898	815	623	773	607	20	7	157	124	-23	76.4%	-3.4%	116	79.0%	-4.25%	-10	35.0%	-5.00%
Region 8	752	734	543	320	521	308	2	2	82	43	-2	58.9%	-0.4%	42	52.4%	-8.54%	-7	100.0%	0.00%
Totals	25910	23789	22155	18122	20252	16608	1049	739	3011	2313	87	81.8%	-0.2%	1,569	76.8%	-1.40%	-21	70.4%	-0.14%
												Reg. Bed			ICU Bed
*Data is preliminary and subject to change.												7.3%	<–COVID-19–>		9.8%
											Munson	0	0		0	0	Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital
											McLaren	12	4		3	3	McLaren Northern Michigan – Petoskey