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Skip to content. Everyone can ride. Health leaders, who are reluctant to reinstate capacity restrictions or masking mandates, continued to implore people to voluntarily be vaccinated, get a booster shot if eligible, wear a well-fitting mask in public and avoid large gatherings.

They should upgrade to an N95 mask or wear two masks that fit well, said Elizabeth Hertel, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Those who are sick but not in need of emergency medical care should avoid the emergency room and instead go to an urgent care or their physician and get tested at home or at a test site. The number of hospital patients with the coronavirus, now roughly 5,, could rise to around 8, under the most pessimistic scenario or increase slightly under the most optimistic model.

She announced that the state is distributing free at-home COVID tests to some public libraries, including in Detroit, Taylor and rural towns. A negative result through antigen testing doesn't guarantee that a person doesn't have COVID or won't develop the virus in the days that follow, Bagdasarian said. This is something that is really taking off, and the numbers are simply such that I don't think we could deal with every case. Sims said the reopening of schools without mask mandates in August combined with the winter, lack of boosting and the holidays have contributed to Michigan's high transmission rate.

So we're talking measles-level or higher contagious, and that's unbelievable," Sims said. The state set a record of 4, adults hospitalized with the virus on Monday, while the children hospitalized with COVID were down from on Friday.

Each day, there are 22 new pediatric admissions, Bagdasarian said. As of Tuesday morning, there were 11 patients ages 17 and younger hospitalized at UM with COVID — more than at any time since the start of the pandemic. Fewer than five were on ventilators, Miller said.

Erika Newman, a pediatric surgeon at C. Beaumont's Sims said he is looking forward to Pfizer's omicron-specific vaccine, which is expected in March. I don't know when we're going to come out of it," he said. Omicron, Sims said, doesn't appear to make people as sick as delta and the original strain.

But with more people infected, and especially those who are unvaccinated, cases can quickly overwhelm hospitals. UM's Malani said Michigan's vaccination rate is below average nationally. And the state, as a result, could still see a lot of cases, including severe ones, she said.