HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Federal officials are sending a COVID surge team to support hospitals in southwest Missouri as hospitals fill up and in some cases, transfer patients to other facilities.
That’s not the case in Michigan, where case rates have averaged 107 a day early this week, partly because more people have been vaccinated.
Ottawa County health officials report 597 residents ill with COVID-19; since last year, 432 have died after getting the virus.
In Allegan County, 218 people currently have the coronavirus; 157 have died since the pandemic was detected.
Spectrum Health’s 14 hospitals are currently treating 30 patients with COVID-19. Holland Hospital’s dashboard no longer includes the number of COVID-19 patients admitted, but a hospital spokeswoman told WHTC via email there were just “1 or 2” patients admitted for COVID-19 treatment.
Michigan Auditor General Doug Ringler has been asked, by state Representative Steve Johnson of Wayland, and to examine COVID-19-related nursing-home deaths, giving him a fall deadline for the report. State records show more than 4,200 COVID-19- linked deaths in nursing homes and nearly 1,500 deaths at adult foster care and homes for elderly people as of June 29, 2021.
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