Local, state data shows slowdown in new virus positives
Local data Thursday showed that in the past week COVID-19 activity in Dickinson County has dwindled to 18 new confirmed positives, while Iron County added half that number at nine cases.
Both counties, however, did have two more deaths each attributed to the virus since the last report Feb. 17, according to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department’s Facebook post Thursday.
The DIDHD also was able to reclassify 550 people in Dickinson County and 103 in Iron County as recovered from the virus. In addition, Dickinson County had 17 probable cases and Iron County three probables.
The DIDHD had Dickinson County at 4,974 confirmed positives and 2,377 probable cases to date, with 6,591 recovered, 107 deaths and 653 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 2,289 confirmed cases to date and 340 probables, with 2,251 recovered, 81 deaths and 297 active cases.
On the state level, figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated 89 new confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday: 34 in Marquette County; 13 in Houghton County; eight in Delta, Menominee and Chippewa counties; four in Schoolcraft County; three in Dickinson and Gogebic counties; two in Alger and Baraga counties; and one each in Iron, Luce, Mackinac and Keweenaw counties. The state also listed no additional virus-related deaths for the region.
Using only the MDHHS numbers, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 50,596 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 795 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Friday had Keweenaw County at 451 confirmed cases and 53 probable cases, and 12 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 646 confirmed cases and 757 probable, eight confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 862 confirmed cases, 104 probable and 34 deaths, two probable; Alger County, 1,028 confirmed cases, 658 probable and eight deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,074 confirmed cases and 668 probable, 11 deaths and two probable; Mackinac County, 1,516 confirmed cases and 836 probable, 26 deaths and two probable; Baraga County, 1,696 confirmed cases, 316 probable and 51 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,285 confirmed cases and 337 probable, 69 deaths and 14 probable; Gogebic County, 2,704 confirmed cases and 523 probable, 38 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 3,312 confirmed cases and 4,996 probable, and 78 deaths, 16 probable; Menominee County, 3,850 confirmed cases, 1,684 probable and 60 deaths, nine probable; Dickinson County, 4,962 confirmed cases and 2,376 probable, 85 deaths and 21 probable; Houghton County, 6,608 confirmed cases, 1,076 probable, 77 deaths and 11 probable; Delta County, 7,828 confirmed cases and 2,033 probable, 129 deaths and 24 probable; and Marquette County, 11,774 confirmed cases, 3,014 probable and 109 deaths, 10 probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Friday had 3,120 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Wednesday, or an average of about 1,560 per day for the two-day period, for a total to date of 2,054,891. The state since Wednesday added 96 deaths attributed to the virus — including 54 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 31,791.
The state issues new COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Friday had Marinette County at 11,489 COVID-19 positives, up 14 since Wednesday, and 110 deaths, up one; Vilas County, 5,169 positives, up nine, and 85 deaths; Forest County, 2,664 positives, up three, and 50 deaths, up one; Iron County, 1,456 positives, up one, and 46 deaths, up one; and Florence County, 1,073 positives, up one, and 15 deaths.




