Michigan, USA
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Delta Airlines flight leaving Detroit for Atlanta obliged to turn around after two passengers refuse to wear masks. The flight eventually left. The article does not say what became of the two passengers.
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July 23. (partially riots-related). Police arrest 20 protestors who were blocking summer school buses from leaving to pick up students. The protestors claimed they were concerned about COVID, but they was apparently some overlap with the local Floyd protestors.
As Detroit police cleared a path through protesters blocking school buses Thursday morning, detectives faced investigating two more killings.
www.freep.com
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Detroit Marathon cancelled. Instead, there will be a virtual race.
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MICHIGAN RECAP
Second wave of official cases is here; second wave of official deaths is not. Masks are now mandatory. People starting to snap. Lawsuits grind on ever so slowly. Petitions begin circulation.
OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL
Confirmed cases and deaths only.
The stats are somewhat off this week, on account of 16 deaths being removed from the record upon review of data. Since I don't know exactly when and where these people didn't die (but a lot of them seem to be in Wayne County, in the Detroit Metro), the real weekly death toll is probably slightly higher than my figures are showing. There is still no second wave of deaths, however. Officially, there were 6 deaths since yesterday, plus 8 old deaths newly identified.
MDHHS said:
*During a data quality assessment review of deaths, manual data entry errors were discovered, leading to a decrease of 16 in the cumulative death total. The errors in death ascertainment occurred during local case investigations and involved mistakenly indicating individuals as being deceased who were not. This adjustment affects the cumulative death totals for impacted counties and statewide. Reviews are being conducted as part of ongoing efforts to ensure data quality and accurate case and death reporting in Michigan.
**The deaths announced today includes 8 deaths identified during a Vital Records review. See cumulative data page for more information.
Detroit Metro (pop. 3,860,000 total; 1,796/sq. mi.; 694/sq km):*
43,460 confirmed / 4,641 dead
41,791 confirmed / 4,627 dead last week
(i.e. at least 14 new deaths, down 17 from the previous week)
Normal Detroit Metro Death Rate: 104 per day, 728 per week.**
Other Michigan (6,120,000; 65/sq. mi.; 25/sq km):
33,518 confirmed / 1,508 dead
31,389 confirmed / 1,490 dead last week
(i.e. at least 18 new deaths, the same as the previous week)
Normal not-Detroit Death Rate: 167 per day, 1,169 per week.**
All Michigan (9,990,000; 103/sq. mi.; 40/sq km):
76,978 confirmed / 6,149 dead / 57,502 recovered = 13,327 active cases^
73,180 confirmed / 6,117 dead / 55,162 recovered = 11,901 active cases last week^
(at least 32 dead (down 17) and 2,340 recovered (up 1,045 since last week))
Net change: + 1,426 active cases since last Saturday.^
Normal Michigan Death Rate: 271 per day, 1,897 per week.**
Death toll doubled since: April 23.
State Government site, daily -
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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).
One Grand Ledge man shot and killed by police after allegedly stabbing another man in a mask dispute (
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Does anyone have a source on the claim that the amount of testing has gone up? Thanks! also what is the size of covid 19 particles?
I know I'm late, but according to this blog, there were 850,000 tests on Friday, July 17 alone.
