DETROIT — Michigan shed its last COVID-19 restrictions nearly 18 months ago and, in that time, the public has come to accept a certain number of deaths from the virus as residents look to put the trauma of the pandemic behind them, experts say.
There are a lot of reasons why, analysts said. Public COVID requirements are largely gone. Deaths are significantly fewer: In the past week, Michigan reported 242 COVID-related deaths in seven days, down from the first months of COVID when the state would regularly report more than 150 deaths in a single day.
Media coverage of the pandemic has lessened from the around-the-clock updates that flashed across television and smartphone screens during the early days of the pandemic.
