Pandemic impact numbers from Lansing, which have climbed every day since mid-March, still have the capacity to surprise.

Coverage has focused on exponential rises in early weeks, on a racial disparity in who's affected and who dies, on round-number benchmarks as cases advanced beyond 30,000 and deaths passed 3,000.

Here's another eye-opener: Oakland, Macomb and suburban Wayne County account for 51% of Covid cases and 54% of deaths statewide. That's over 19,200 diagnoses and nearly 1,800 deaths.



(Graphic: Michigan Department of Heath and Human Services)

The City of Detroit has been Michan's epicenter from the start and still is, with 8,613 confirmed cases as of Sunday (23% of the state total) and 922 deaths (28% of all attributed to the lung virus). But surrounding counties also are hard-hit -- particulary Wayne and Oakland:

[Percentages are share of Michigan totals]

Wayne (outside Detroit): 7,135 cases (19%) | 658 deaths (20%)

Oakland : 6,928 cases (18%) | 620 deaths (19%)

Macomb: 5,203 cases (14%) | 520 deaths (16%)

Those figures are from Sunday's update by the Department of Health and Human Services, which also posts satetwide totals: