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Surgeon general on pandemic: Detroit will worsen next week

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams portrait
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The U.S. surgeon general says the situation in Detroit, a national "hot spot" for cases of the new coronavirus, will worsen. Three Detroit-area counties - Wayne, Oakland and Macomb - account for 84% of the nearly 3,000 people in Michigan confirmed to have COVID-19. At least 60 have died, all but eight from the three-county region. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tells "CBS This Morning" that Detroit "will have a worse week next week." His comments come as as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration implements a plan in which hospitals outside southeast Michigan accept patients from hospitals overwhelmed with virus patients.