Thirty-three states release daily numbers about hospitalizations for the coronavirus. Eighteen release data on patients who have recovered.

Other states release daily numbers of patients on ventilators, in intensive care units or cases involving nursing homes.

None of the information is available in Michigan, which has the third most deaths from the virus in the nation.

One day after Beaumont Health CEO John Fox went public with criticism of the state and other hospitals for failing to share information during the crisis, health experts and consumers on Monday told Bridge that Michigan needs to increase transparency during the outbreak.

For hospital executives, more information about patients and their conditions can help guide care and staffing.

For residents like Inez Aultman of Zeeland, who has diabetes and high-blood pressure, the data would let her know if Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order is helping curb cases.

“I think Michiganders need the encouragement to keep going because it’s costing us big time,” she told Bridge.

“They need the encouragement that that sacrifice … is doing something.”

Michigan releases data daily on the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in each county, negative and positive test specimens and demographic data on gender, age, race and ethnicity.

Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the state’s chief medical executive, said Michigan is one of a few states to release racial data on the disease and is working to be as “comprehensive and transparent as we possibly can.”

But on metrics tracked by the COVID Tracking Project — which collects coronavirus data from state health departments on positive and negative cases, deaths, hospitalizations, ICU and ventilator patients and recovered cases — Michigan is on par with just six other states for providing the least amount of information, only case counts and deaths.

Some other states provide in-depth data on coronavirus cases.

Minnesota shows exposure type, traffic patterns indicating social distancing success and hospital surge capacity. Florida shows case concentrations down to the ZIP code. California releases current hospitalizations and intensive care patient numbers.

Eight states report the number of patients treated in intensive care, while six list the number of patients that require a ventilator.

On the front lines in Michigan, the lack of reported data about health care workers getting sick and dying from COVID-19 requires hospital employees to scour social media for information, said Jamie Brown, a critical care nurse at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo and president of the Michigan Nurses Association.

"The only reason we know is from the press right now," Brown said.

Likewise, although COVID-19 cases have been reported at 10-12 nursing homes, Michigan doesn’t compile information about outbreaks in facilities. Florida provides daily data on the total number of cases in senior homes.

Mark Hornbeck, spokesperson for the Michigan AARP, told Bridge his group has tried to get information on cases in Michigan nursing homes to no avail.

“Data is important to help determine the depth of the problem in nursing homes across the state and inform policy about quarantine and visitation to long-term care facilities,” Hornbeck wrote in an email.

Michigan health officials did not respond to requests for comment, but earlier have said they are limited by what county health departments and hospitals provide.

Khaldun said on Monday that she hopes the state will start reporting recovery data this week.

Those numbers can provide much-needed hope in a pandemic that has killed 727 in Michigan as of Monday, Whitmer has said.

“All of these numbers, I think, are stories that we could share and should share,” Whitmer said last week.

“We’re working really hard to make sure that we are transparent so that people have that accurate information with which to make decisions."