(WXYZ) – Beaumont’s director of infectious disease research is talking about what drives COVID-19 growth in Michigan. He calls for a reduction in schools and restaurants as a way to control the variants.
According to the state, there are 3,300 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Michigan, and variants spread across the state play an important role.
“Some of them do nothing, but some of them can make it more infectious, some of them can make it more dangerous, more deadly. “Said Dr. Matthew Sims.
Sims said he sees COVID-19 growing directly as director of infectious disease research at Beaumont Royal Oak; 40% of patients in his hospital have variant B.1.1.7.
He compares the infection that spreads like the virus that passes through an open door.
“What happens is that when you open the state, well, you open the door wider. No? So let more viruses pass,” he said. “Now you take a variant that is more contagious and it’s like running through the door.”
B.1.351 together with the highly contagious B.1.1.7 variants have been identified in our condition, but strain B.1.1.7 is spreading everywhere.
There have been nearly 2,000 cases identified by the state health department, but that number is likely to be much higher. A state laboratory is needed to determine the strain.
“If you want to go in the opposite direction, you want to slow it down, you have to close the door … restaurants, sports events, personal school. I know the governor doesn’t want to do that, and I know Dr. Khaldun doesn’t want to do that. But the problem is that our number is increasing, not decreasing, “he said.
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