268 infected in new coronavirus outbreaks at 56 schools, says Michigan’s March 15 school outbreak report

A total of 268 students and staff at 53 K-12 school districts and three colleges have been infected by coronavirus in new school-related outbreaks, according to data released Monday, March 15, by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

The data was collected on Thursday, March 11.

Last week, state reported 226 infections in new outbreaks at 47 K-12 school districts and one college.

The biggest new outbreaks involves 19 students and staff at Lutheran High Northwest in Rochester Hills. and 17 at Handy Middle School in Bay City.

The new outbreaks at colleges included seven infections at Northern Michigan University in Marquette; six staffers at Northwood University in Midland, and two cases at College of Creative Studies in Detroit.

New K-12 school outbreaks also were identified in 23 counties. Below are those outbreaks listed by county:

Antrim: Ellsworth Middle High School, three students and staff. ","type":"text

Bay: Handy Middle School in Bay City, 17 students and staff; John Glenn High School in Bay City, student and staff. ","type":"text

Berrien: Brandywine Middle/High School, eight students; Niles High School, four students; Lakeshore Middle School, two students.","type":"text

Branch: Coldwater High School, two students.","type":"text

Calhoun: Battle Creek High School, five students; Endeavor, four students and staff; Calhoun ISD, three staff. ","type":"text

Grand Traverse: Traverse City Central High School, nine students and staff. ","type":"text

Huron: Harbor Beach High School, seven students and staff; Caseville High School, six students and staff; Harbor Beach Preschool, student and staff. ","type":"text

Ingham: Webberville High School, five students; East Lansing High School, four stduents.","type":"text

Jackson: Springport Middle School, six students and staff; Springport High School, four students; Jackson Area Career Center, two students.. ","type":"text

Lenawee: Clinton High School, three students. ","type":"text

Livingston: St. Patrick School in Brighton, six students; Brighton High School, three staff and students; Pinckney High School, two students; Navigator Elementary School in Pinckney, two students.","type":"text

Macomb: Immanuel Lutheran in St. Clair Shores, three students. ","type":"text

Mason: OJ Dejonge Middle School in Ludington, two students. ","type":"text

Monroe: Bedford High School in Temperance, 12 students. ","type":"text

Oakland: Lutheran High Northwest in Rochester Hills, 19 staff and students; Our Shepard Lutheran in Birmingham, 15 students and staff; Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills, six students; Country Oaks Elementary in Commerce Charter Township, two students; Ferndale High School, two students.","type":"text

Otsego: Gaylord High School, six students; Gaylord Intermediate Schools, two students. ","type":"text

Ottawa: West Ottawa High School, two students. ","type":"text

Shiawassee: Morrice High School, three staffer and students; Emerson Elementary in Owosso, staff and students. ","type":"text

St. Clair: Marysville High School, 12 staffers and students; Marine City High School, nine staffers and students; Yale High School, three students; St Clair High School, three students. ","type":"text

Tuscola: Reese Elementary, two staff. ","type":"text

Washtenaw: Whitmore Lake Elementary School, two students; Whitmore Lake High School, two students ","type":"text

Wayne: Grosse Pointe South High School, five students; Allen Park High School, four students; Patrick Henry Middle School in Woodhaven, three students; Fordson High School in Dearborn, two students; Detroit Academy Of Arts and Science, three staff.","type":"text

A cumulative total of 8,673 individuals have been sickened in ongoing outbreaks, the March 15 report says. Ongoing outbreaks include clusters identified earlier but that had at least one additional case in the past 28 days.

A cumulative total of 8,673 individuals have been sickened in ongoing outbreaks, the March 15 report says. Ongoing outbreaks include clusters identified earlier but that had at least one additional case in the past 28 days.

Last wee, there was a cumulative total of 7,660 cases in ongoing outbreaks.

Most of those ongoing outbreaks involve college communities, and most of those outbreaks occurred outside classroom settings. A total of 7,695 infections linked to ongoing outbreaks have occurred in and around 20 college communities.

Among K-12 schools, there were 978 staff and students infected in ongoing outbreaks at 107 schools serving pre-K through high school. The latest list includes buildings with at least one case in the past 28 days.

The largest ongoing outbreaks in K-12 schools: 52 infected at Madison Middle School in Lenawee County; 49 at Lapeer High School; 34 at East Grand Rapids High School, and 32 cases each at at the Lapeer ISD and Forest Hills Central High School near Grand Rapids.

Outbreak data for K-12 schools includes only cases in which the student or staff was infected at school or at a school-related function. Those who caught the virus outside of school are not included.

A COVID-19 outbreak is defined as two or more cases with a link by place and time indicating a shared exposure outside of a household.

Below is an online database that allows readers to search outbreak data by school name or by city or county. The number of those infected is a cumulative total since the original outbreak. (Note: Washtenaw County only reports cumulative totals for the past 28 days.)

Below is an interactive map showing both new and ongoing outbreaks listed in the Monday, March 15, report. It shows outbreaks reported as of March 11. You can put your cursor over a dot to see the underlying data.

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