Dickinson adds 91 new virus cases in past week
Local health officials Thursday reported 91 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County in the past week, plus 70 probable cases, bringing the county’s total number of active coronavirus cases to 643.
Iron County has added 25 new confirmed positives since Sept. 23, along with seven probable cases, according to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department’s Facebook post. Dickinson County did have 55 people now considered recovered from the virus and Iron County 28 recovered cases.
The DIDHD had Dickinson County at 2,830 confirmed positives and 747 probable cases to date, with 2,861 recovered, 73 deaths attributed to the virus and 643 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 1,172 25 confirmed cases and 111 probables, with 1,086 recovered, 50 deaths and 147 active cases.
The Upper Peninsula as of Thursday had 53 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including 15 adults in intensive care and four on ventilators, according to Frontline UPdates JIC, a group of health care communication professionals from the U.P.
Statewide, 1,565 adults are hospitalized for COVID-19 — plus 27 pediatric patients — with 423 adults in ICU beds and 207 on ventilators.
State numbers for the Upper Peninsula were not available Thursday, as the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services updates its COVID-19 data site on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Thursday had 24 new confirmed positives in Marinette County, 11 in Vilas County and one each in Forest and Iron counties. A new virus-related death was recorded in Vilas County.
The DHS data site Thursday had Marinette County with 4,985 confirmed cases, 826 probable cases and 69 deaths, eight probable deaths; Vilas County, 2,657 confirmed, 165 probable and 47 deaths, three probable; Forest County, 1,277 confirmed, 96 probable and 27 deaths, four probable; Iron County, 673 confirmed, 140 probable and 21 deaths, 21 probable; and Florence County, 486 confirmed, 82 probable and 13 deaths.
Wisconsin data showed 2,326 more positives Thursday for a total of 727,007 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date. The state Thursday recorded 18 more virus-related deaths to reach 7,997.



