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Michigan hospitals have 4,566 adult inpatients Wednesday with confirmed or suspected Covid infections, four dozen more than on Monday.
Just over 1,000 of those women and men are so seriously ill that they're in intensive care units, where Covid cases fill 39.7% of ICU beds for adults, new state data shows.
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In six Southeast Michigan counties, 441 adults being treated in ICUs for Covid fill 34% of available beds. Overall, pandemic patients occupy 20% of the region's 11,473 hospital beds for adult inpatients.
Here are figures for health department statistical categories that include Metro Detroit, reflecting hospitalized adults diagnosed with coronavirus or suspected of having it:
♦ Wayne, Washtenaw and Monroe: 1,204 patients | 257 in ICUs (36% of beds), including 202 on ventilators (up 10 since Monday)
♦ Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair: 1,128 patients | 184 in ICUs (31% of beds), including 118 on ventilators (11 more than Monday)
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