USA
Applications for federal college aid are down 3.7% as of June 19.
School closures in spring complicated application process, and officials fear thousands of students are reconsidering plans for higher education.
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Michigan, USA
As previously mentioned ITT, Governor Whitmer has ordered the populace to wear masks under penalty of $500 fines.
The Sherrif of Van Buren County, on the southwest side of the state, has announced that "We will dedicate our services to investigating crimes against persons and property and we will not pull valuable resources away from that to investigate complaints against the Governor’s Executive Orders." He advises concerned citizens to contact the State Police or the Attorney General.
The police department of Bad Axe, in the Thumb, made a similar statement, with similar advice for concerned citizens.
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Petition drive begins collecting signatures to repeal the law that Governor Whitmer claims gives her indefinite emergency authority.
The group will need to collect approximately 340,000 signatures, and then the initiative will be voted on by the legislature. If the legislature votes "yes," the governor cannot veto it. If the legislature votes "no," then the initiative will be placed on the 2022 general election ballot.
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Cass County prosecutor considering whether or not to charge the organizer of a Fourth of July lake party.
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MICHIGAN RECAP
The second wave of deaths may be making its long-feared appearance. 65 people died last week, but 91 this week. Will the trend continue?
Governor Whitmer has re-closed bars and mandated the wearing of facemasks.
OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL (AS OF 7/11/2020)
I was away from the internet Saturday and so couldn't get that day's data as it was released to the public at that time. The figures below are from Saturday's figures in the Sunday edition of the state's day-by-day tally.
The state has begun tracking probable cases and deaths. Those are not included here. I don't know how they factor into the "recovered" total.
Detroit Metro (pop. 3,860,000 total; 1,796/sq. mi.; 694/sq km):*
40,038 confirmed / 4,596 dead
38,538 confirmed / 4,539 dead last week
(i.e. 57 new deaths, up 18 from the previous week)
Normal Detroit Metro Death Rate: 104 per day.**
Other Michigan (6,120,000; 65/sq. mi.; 25/sq km):
29,289 confirmed / 1,472 dead
26,995 confirmed / 1,433 dead last week
(i.e. 39 new deaths, up 13 from the previous week)
Normal not-Detroit Death Rate: 167 per day**
All Michigan (9,990,000; 103/sq. mi.; 40/sq km):
69,327 confirmed / 6,068 dead / 53,867 recovered = 9,392 active cases^
65,533 confirmed / 5,972 dead / 52,841 recovered = 6,720 active cases last week^
(96 dead (up 31) and 1,026 declared recovered (down 716 since last week)
Net change: + 2,672 active cases since last Saturday.^
Normal Michigan Death Rate: 271 per day.**
Death toll doubled since: April 23.
State Government site, daily -
Sunday's archive;
State Gov site, total, includes breakdowns by sex, age, race and ethnicity - archive is useless after redesign.
*Here defined as the City of Detroit, and Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties, minus state and federal prisoners, who are not counted towards any county's cases, but are kept in categories of their own.
** As of 2018.
^Here calculated based on confirmed cases and deaths only.
One Ann Arbor man allegedly killed by his roommate in a Corona-related dispute (
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One Flint security guard allegedly murdered for telling a woman that her daughter needed to wear a mask in a dollar store. Multiple suspects are in custody (
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A&N thread).
