Nurses work within Covenant HealthCare's COVID-19 intensive care unit in December 2021. (Isaac Ritchey | MLive.com)Isaac Ritchey | MLive.com
SAGINAW, MI — Dr. Matthew Deibel and his colleagues at Covenant HealthCare saw the disturbing signs arrive the last week of December.
The Saginaw-based hospital houses one of the region’s laboratories that analyzes swab samples collected from people tested for COVID-19. Along with informing individuals if they carry the virus, the results also provide public health officials with a key data point known as a “positivity rate,” which indicates the percentage of swabs that test positive in a given day. It’s a telling number that reveals the pace of the virus’ spread across the community.
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