Michigan hospitals are bracing for a surge of coronavirus cases as infections rise to at least 2,294. Deaths jumped to 43 from 24. Eighty-five percent of all cases were reported in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, but even the Upper Peninsula has a few.
Beaumont Health and Henry Ford Health System in southeastern Michigan said they were caring for more than 1,000 patients at their 13 hospitals. Altus, a company near Grand Rapids, making hundreds of carts for hospital ventilators, which help desperate COVID-19 victims breathe.
Altus is hiring more people and adding shifts.
