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With a little more than a week to go, the restrictions laid out in the latest pandemic order from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services seem to be having a slight positive impact.
The seven-day rolling average of new COVID-19 diagnoses has fallen from more than 7,200 on November 21st to around 6,600 yesterday.
The death total has not begun to drop, though, with the seven-day rolling average at 84 per day, the highest since early May.
Diagnosis rates are falling in every county in the Upper Peninsula, although Baraga County remains the hardest-hit in the state.
Health officials remain concerned that exposures from Thanksgiving travel could push the rate back up within the next couple of weeks.
