About 2,200 workers in Michigan’s two largest health care systems have coronavirus symptoms or have tested positive for the virus. Beaumont Health, Michigan’s largest health care system with 38,000 employees, has about 1,500 staff members staying home because they have symptoms consistent with Covid-19. In addition, Henry Ford Health System, a Detroit-based health care system with more than 30,000 employees, said about 600 to 700 staff members had tested positive for Covid-19. Henry Ford’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Adnan Munkarah said 734 employees — 2.1% of the health system’s workforce — tested positive for the novel coronavirus since they started tracking healthcare workers coronavirus status on March 12. Michigan has more than 17,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, the third-most of any state as of Tuesday morning. Over 727 people have died in the state so far. |