Michigan reported 2,171 new coronavirus cases and 17 new deaths for Wednesday, May 12.
The state is averaging 2,139 new cases and 59 new deaths per day over the last week, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s the lowest seven-day case average of deaths since April 24.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 869,512 reported coronavirus cases and 18,355 deaths. Additionally, the state has reported 100,864 probable cases and 1,173 probable deaths, in which a physician and/or antigen test ruled it COVID-19 but no confirmatory PCR test was done.
(The above chart shows Michigan’s 7-day rolling average of new confirmed coronavirus cases. You can put your cursor over a bar to see the number. You also can click on the option just below the headline to see the actual number of new cases reported by day.)
78 of Michigan’s 83 counties reported new cases Wednesday. They were led by Wayne with 373, Oakland with 203 and Macomb with 195. Other top-reporting counties included Kent (181), Muskegon (82), Ottawa (79), Washtenaw (72), Genesee (66), Jackson (62) and Saginaw (54).
Counties with no new cases included Chippewa, Alcona, Antrim, Crawford and Alger.
18 counties reported at least one new death, led by Wayne with four and Muskegon and Ingham, both with three.
(The above chart shows Michigan’s 7-day rolling average of deaths involving confirmed coronavirus cases. You can put your cursor over a bar to see the number. You also can click on the option just below the headline to see the actual number of new deaths reported by day.)
Hospitals statewide were treating 2,239 patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, with 616 patients in the ICU. That’s down from 2,920 patients being treated a week ago.
Of the 28,990 diagnostic tests processed on Tuesday, May 11, 7.96% came back positive for SARS-CoV-2. The latest seven-day average has been 8.2%, down from 10.3% a week ago.
Case reporting
First is a chart showing new cases reported to the state each day for the past 30 days. This is based on when a confirmed coronavirus test is reported to the state, which means the patient first became sick days before.
You can call up a chart for any county, and you can put your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
(In a few instances, a county reported a negative number (decline) in daily new cases, following a retroactive reclassification by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. In those instances, we subtracted cases from the prior date and put 0 in the reported date.)
The next chart below shows new cases for the past 30 days based on onset of symptoms. In this chart, numbers for the most recent days are incomplete because of the lag time between people getting sick and getting a confirmed coronavirus test result, which can take up to a week or more.
You can call up a chart for any county, and you can put your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
For more statewide data, visit MLive’s coronavirus data page, here.
To find a testing site near you, check out the state’s online test finder, here, send an email to COVID19@michigan.gov, or call 888-535-6136 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.
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