The Beaumont Health official believes Michigan needs to impose more COVID-19 restrictions

Add Beaumont Health’s medical director of infection prevention to the list of experts who believe Michigan needs to impose more COVID-19 restrictions to slow the spread of the virus.

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Dr. Nick Gilpin said on Thursday (April 14th) that he agrees with the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who thinks Michigan needs to close to combat the alarming spread of COVID-19.

“I think so, we need to have a certain level of commitment to restrict some of these activities in the community,” Gilpin said.

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He showed how COVID-19 values ​​improved after the order to stay at home last spring and the two-and-a-half month break this winter.

“If you look back at our previous growths, what’s the difference?” Gilpin asked. “The difference between the first increase we experienced is that there were restrictions in the community to limit the size of the assembly and limit the activities inside, which we know are very effective ways of transmitting the coronavirus. I saw her in March and April last year. We saw it in the fall and winter months in Michigan and both surges, I think, we curved, in part, because of active restrictions. ”

Gilpin and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said it would be difficult for Michigan to transform its values ​​based solely on vaccinations.

“It takes six weeks for the vaccine to reach maximum effectiveness,” Gilpin said. For example, someone who receives the Moderna vaccine – which requires two shots 28 days apart – will not receive the maximum benefit for six weeks.

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He said Gretchen Whitmer Government, which has said several times in the last week that it does not intend to impose more restrictions, is in a very difficult position to balance the virus with the “radioactive political environment”.

But given the national cases and positivity rates five times higher than in mid-February, he believes the right measure is to issue more restrictions.

“At a time like this, right now, in southeast Michigan and Michigan in general, I think we need to be a little more prescriptive right now,” Gilpin said.