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Hospitals Seek Military Help in Michigan Amid Covid Overflow
- Staffing shortages, waning vaccine efficacy among top concerns
- Increasing hospitalizations feared over holiday, flu seasons
Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, on April 8, 2020.
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Henry Ford Health System has seen Covid-19 cases soar by 50% in three weeks, straining staff and care at the Detroit-based network of five major hospitals in southeast Michigan.
On Tuesday, statewide Covid hospitalizations reached 4,085, approaching the record of 4,640 set in April 2020 at the onset of the pandemic. Michigan’s hospitals, with the help of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, have asked the U.S. Department of Defense to provide emergency staff, said Brian Peters, chief executive officer of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association.