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Flint Doc Has CV; Drug Study In Detroit

Stay at home Michigan, day 12.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha says she’s doing fine after testing positive for Corona virus.
The Flint doctor whose study detected the Flint water emergency is asking others who have recovered to donate plasma, like she has.
Washtenaw County says nearly half of the COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized are black. The county’s African American population is 12 percent.
Public school districts have a lot of leeway in handling student courses now that the governor has ended the school year. Districts can require seniors to take a final exam or show their understanding of course work in other ways before they can graduate. Administrators are working on helping teachers with online learning.
Michigan has more than 14-hundred new cases of CV, totaling 10-thousand 791, 80 new deaths for a total of 417.
About 25 percent of the virus tests given in the state returned positive.
Wayne County leads the state with 5,069 cases, including 2,858 in Detroit alone. Oakland County has 2,183 cases, followed by Macomb with 1,332, Washtenaw with 438 and Genesee with 349.
Wayne County has had 194 deaths, while Oakland County has reported 119 and Macomb County has had 58.
The state’s chief medical officer says we should strongly consider wearing masks in public.
Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit is launching the first-in-the-nation trial to see if the drug hydroxy-chloriquine can prevent the virus in healthy people. The drug is effective as a treatment in some patients. The study aims to see if the drug can prevent health care workers from getting the CV.