Month: June 2021

DETROIT – The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan has risen to 894,628 as of Wednesday, including 19,748 deaths, state officials report. Wednesday’s update includes a total of 195 new cases and four additional deaths. On Tuesday, the state announced a total of 894,433 cases and 19,744 deaths. Testing has been steady around 20,000 diagnostic tests reported per day on average, with the 7-day positive rate below 1.3% as of Tuesday, near the lowest on record. Hospitalizations have declined over the last several weeks, now near the lowest point since the start of the pandemic. The state’s 7-day moving average for daily cases was 110 on Monday -- the lowest since June 2020. The 7-day death average was 10 on Monday, the lowest since March. The state’s fatality ra...

Even fully vaccinated people should wear masks, according to the WHO. Sarah Tew/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told NBC's Today show on Wednesday that people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus do not need...

Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Cambridge, UK Dami A. Collier, Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira, Prasanti Kotagiri, Rawlings Datir, Bo Meng, Adam Abdullahi, Laura Bergamaschi, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Paul A. Lyons, Eoin McKinney, Mark Wills & Ravindra K. Gupta Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Dami A. Collier, Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira, Prasanti Kotagiri, Rawlings Datir, Eleanor Lim, Bo Meng, Stephen Baker, Gordon Dougan, Christoph Hess, Paul J. Lehner, Paul A. Lyons, Nicholas J. Matheson, James E. D. Thaventhiran, Michael P. Weekes, Ben Bullman, Kelvin Hunter, Federica Mescia, Nicole Pond, Laura Bergamaschi, Ariana Betancourt, Georgie Bower, Chiara Cossetti, Madeline Epping, Andrew Hinch, Veronika Romashova, Lor...

The risk of being hospitalized or dying as a result of a breakthrough infection is minuscule (less than .003 percent), based on data collected from the C.D.C. As of June 21, more than 150 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. As of that date, the C.D.C. reported that 4,115 patients had Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough infections that resulted in hospitalization or death, including 3,907 who had been hospitalized and 750 who had died. But because the risk of getting Covid-19 after vaccination isn’t zero, some health experts still advise that vaccinated people take reasonable precautions, like wearing a mask in crowded spaces. People who live in areas with low vaccination rates may also want to consider wearing masks in public, where they are more like...