Michigan has highest coronavirus fatality rate in US as protests continue

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Michigan has the highest death rate in the US from those getting coronavirus — as the state continues to be divided by bitter protests over strict stay-at-home orders, data shows.

While it has far fewer overall cases than either New York or New Jersey, the Wolverine state had seen more than 4,000 deaths as of Saturday — a fatality rate of 9.13 percent, according to WWMT.

That puts it a full percentage point higher than the second-worst state — Connecticut — and far worse than most of the rest of the US, where the fatality rate for those infected is 5.88 percent, the site said.

Most of the fatal cases appear to be centered in poverty-stricken areas of Detroit, according to the data — with surrounding counties accounting for at least 70% of cases, and 81% of deaths, according to the data.

The startling figures come as the state continues to be divided by some of the most bitter protests against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown after declaring a state of emergency.

Last week, hundreds of angry demonstrators — some armed with rifles — stormed the State House, terrifying lawmakers who wore bulletproof vests to protect themselves.

thatscool22 on May 4th, 2020 at 00:43 UTC »

Has anyone seen those posts showing the cdc.com charts with covid deaths at around 37,000 with pneumonia and flu shown through the week of apr 25th and as of may1? The right wingers are trying to say that the media is lying and the deaths are only at 37,000, not over 60,000. Does anyone have an easy counter argument to that? I keep posting that it’s only through apr 25th and there is a lag time in reporting, that’s why the deaths are only at 37,000 in the chart.

Firepower1994 on May 3rd, 2020 at 23:26 UTC »

These people will not care or understand, unless it affects them directly. No way around it.

mlhradio on May 3rd, 2020 at 21:51 UTC »

What's going to happen is that the fifty-year-old military-survival-fetish-LARPer will get back into his big SUV at the end of the rally, drive back to the suburbs to have dinner with his family. And then two weeks later, his mother starts coughing and has a fever and starts having trouble breathing. LARPer thinks, "but Mom hasn't been outside in weeks! And everyone else in the house is feeling great! What could have happened?"

Takes her to the hospital, she is rushed to the ER with a serious case of COVID-19. He's tested and he has it as well, even though he never showed a single symptom. Everyone else in the house is tested and they come up positive as well. They start tracking down their friends and other acquaintances that have dropped by or visited over the last two weeks, half of them end up testing positive, too, even though no one is showing symptoms more than a sniffle.

And that is how another mini-epidemic in the suburbs starts. Six weeks later, after another round of social distancing imposed by the suburb's mayor, over a hundred new cases and six new deaths, with several people still in the hospital recovering, or trying to recover (and may not). All because Johnny Reb LARPer attended a rally because Muh Freedumb and all that bullshit.