44 infected in new coronavirus outbreaks at 9 institutions, says Michigans Jan. 18 school outbreak report – mlive.com

A total of 44 students and staff at eight K-12 schools and a college have been infected by coronavirus in new school-related outbreaks, according to data released Monday, Jan. 18, by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

That includes 14 cases involving students at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie and 10 cases involving students at Hastings High School.

There also were clusters involving four people or less at Benzie Central High School, Island City Academy in Eaton Rapids, St. Gerrard Elementary in Lansing, Woodbridge Elementary in Zeeland, Ridge Wood Elementary in Northville, and the public elementaries in Marlette and Deckerville.

A cumulative total of 6,427 have been sickened in ongoing outbreaks, the report says. Ongoing outbreaks include clusters identified earlier but that had at least one additional case in the past 28 days.

Mondays school outbreak report show there were 6,157 students and staff infected in ongoing outbreaks associated with college communities. Most of those outbreaks occurred outside classroom settings.

Among K-12 schools, there were 284 staff and students infected in ongoing outbreaks at 31 schools serving pre-K through high school. Seven of those outbreaks involved only administrative staff. The list includes buildings with at least one case in the past 28 days.

Outbreak data for K-12 schools includes only cases in which the student or staff was infected at school or at a school-related function. Those who caught the virus outside of school are not included.

A COVID-19 outbreak is defined as two or more cases with a link by place and time indicating a shared exposure outside of a household.

Mondays report is based on data collected Thursday, Jan. 14.

Below is an online database that allows readers to search outbreak data by school name or by county. The number of those infected is a cumulative total since the original outbreak, with the exception of University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, in which the number listed are cases in the past 28 days.

Below is an interactive map showing the outbreaks in the Monday, Jan. 11, report. You can put your cursor over a dot to see the underlying data.

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