LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday urged Michigan residents to get the flu vaccine to ease the load on the health system if there is a surge of coronavirus cases during the fall and winter influenza season, announcing the state wants at least 1 million more people vaccinated.
She received a flu shot during a news conference to "show how easy it is."
More than 3.2 million of Michigan's 10 million residents were vaccinated against the flu last season. The state's goal is to increase that number by a third, to 4.3 million.
"When we all get our flu vaccine, we can help keep thousands of patients out of the hospital and prevent overcrowding," Whitmer said.
Brian Peters, CEO of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association, said hospital administrators are concerned about a second wave of COVID-19 coinciding with an outbreak of the seasonal flu.
"In that scenario, many of our hospitals could potentially fill to capacity," Peters said at Whitmer's weekly press briefing.
IKEA Retail U.S. has donated $1.2 million that will go to Michigan's COVID-19 Response and Recovery Initiative — the largest donation to the fund to date to help support the state's ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts and other critical services.
"We are appreciative of the ongoing support from the state of Michigan, including the unemployment funds paid to our co-workers who were furloughed in the early weeks of the pandemic," Javier Quiñones, IKEA Retail U.S. president.
The Michigan COVID-19 Response and Recovery Initiative helps leverage federal resources, including Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, that require a match to provide critical services and needs to respond to the pandemic. Donations are allocated to allocated to provide food and water, education support for children, and personal protective equipment, and other essential activities as needs are identified.
Joneigh Khaldun, M.D., the state's chief medical executive, said Tuesday that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will begin publishing details about coronavirus outbreaks — defined as being two or more new cases with a link indicating a shared exposure outside of a household as reported by local health departments — weekly at michigan.gov/coronavirus.
There were 70 outbreaks in the week ending Aug. 20, according to the data from local health departments.
The new data shows 13 of the 70 outbreaks are linked to nursing homes, adult day care facilities and group homes.
Eleven of the 70 outbreaks were linked to the social gatherings such as weddings, funerals, graduation parties or college parties.
In Isabella County, there have been 87 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 tied to students returning to campus at Central Michigan University, which started classes last week, according to the Central Michigan District Health Department.
Michigan on Tuesday reported 779 new cases of COVID-19 and 20 additional deaths, including six from a vital records review.
View the charts below for the trends.
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