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The Michigan health department on Friday reported 17,980 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 128 new deaths over a two-day period.
That's an average of 8,990 new cases per day.
Michigan reports 17,980 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 128 new deaths over 2 days
A Michigan taxidermist who got infected with COVID-19 is at the center of a medical mystery that borders on the bizarre: Did he get infected by a mink — the animal susceptible to the virus and farmed for its fur — or a human?
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In early February, a taxidermist living in Eaton County, became infected with COVID-19. A sample from his positive test result was sent to the state lab to be genetically sequenced — and came back as connected to a mutation of the virus found in infected mink, whose fur is used for coats and clothing.
And yet the taxidermist had no known exposure to a Michigan mink farm where two employees had become infected with a mink-associated strain months earlier, suggesting he was infected in the community, according to the CDC.
CDC: Michigan taxidermist may have caught COVID-19 from infected mink
originally posted by: MapMistress
It's a very unusual spike in Covid cases in Michigan. At the beginning of November, Michigan was averaging about 4500 cases per day claiming that Delta was subsiding.
Now within a couple of days, Michigan spikes up to 8900 cases per day.
The Michigan health department on Friday reported 17,980 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 128 new deaths over a two-day period.
That's an average of 8,990 new cases per day.
Michigan reports 17,980 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 128 new deaths over 2 days
The really odd thing is the rates are higher in some of the rural less populated areas. Here's some charts and maps. It's quite a spike in cases.
Tracking Coronavirus in Michigan: Latest Map and Case Count
Makes me wonder if there's a new variant there that is mutated to spread faster, especially when seeing a spike in cases like that.
There's a lot of mink farms in Michigan. Covid mutates exponentially on mink farms. And Michigan mink farms have been quarantined before for Covid outbreaks. Minks do transmit the mutations to humans. Clearly there's more than one Covid-mutation from mink farms out there circulating in humans.
A Michigan taxidermist who got infected with COVID-19 is at the center of a medical mystery that borders on the bizarre: Did he get infected by a mink — the animal susceptible to the virus and farmed for its fur — or a human?
...
In early February, a taxidermist living in Eaton County, became infected with COVID-19. A sample from his positive test result was sent to the state lab to be genetically sequenced — and came back as connected to a mutation of the virus found in infected mink, whose fur is used for coats and clothing.
And yet the taxidermist had no known exposure to a Michigan mink farm where two employees had become infected with a mink-associated strain months earlier, suggesting he was infected in the community, according to the CDC.
CDC: Michigan taxidermist may have caught COVID-19 from infected mink
Denmark had to cull-kill millions of minks because Covid mutated in their mink farms beyond the human immune system.
Anyone else think Michigan might have some new variant that spreads faster with cases spiking like that?
originally posted by: Mandroid7
No, covid is the flu.
You can confirm with the cdc that the pcr test is positive from the flu.
..while the flu disappears
It's such a mystery.
You can tell it's bs news propaganda by the numbers alone.
9000 new cases per day!!
Lmao
So, in an 8 hour work day, that's 1125 tests per hour consistently at 100% positive tests.
like the mail in votes for the democrat. lol.
That's impressive.
Lmao...um hmm
originally posted by: Nyiah
I'll entertain the prospect of a "new variant" up here, when the CDC's done shoving their thumb up their ass trying to figure out how TF there was a flu outbreak to the tune of HUNDREDS at UM-Ann Arbor right before all these cases "exploded".
Gee. I wonder what the # is actually going around, eh?
Spoiler: Reeks like flu.
“I think most Minnesotans would be surprised—shocked, perhaps—to hear that Minnesota is now the fastest-growing COVID hotspot in the country,” Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm told reporters on a call this week.
Seven of the eight other states with the highest 7-day case rates are in the northern or western United States. They are New Mexico, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado.
A rising share of the infected, hospitalized, and dying are comprised of the vaccinated, data show. In Michigan, for instance, over the last 30 days that complete data is available for, 27 percent of cases, 28 percent of hospitalizations, and 24 percent of deaths were among those fully vaccinated.
.... Michigan officials on Friday recommended everybody except children 2 and younger wear a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status, although they stopped short of mandating face coverings.