In terms of COVID levels and risk assessment, the CDC's Wastewater Surveillance Monitoring website (link further down) will give you a more accurate look at COVID levels in the Nation, Region, & State. The CDC Respirator Illnesses page that Clare just shared uses hospital admissions as its metric for COVID levels, whereas Wastewater Surveillance is actively testing all wastewater that comes through the treatment sites. It is a more accurate look at all currently active COVID cases (even if they don't show symptoms, haven't tested themselves for COVID, or have not gone to the hospital for symptoms - remember that asymptomatic cases account for almost half of all infections).

Using this metric, the entire country is Very High (also keeping in mind we do not have post-holiday numbers yet). 

The CDC recently updated and re-released Wastewater Tracking Data for COVID-19 cases. This is considered the most effective way to trace levels of COVID within communities, as it is not dependent on people having access to and taking PCR tests and it can detect asymptomatic & pre-symptomatic COVID cases.

Wastewater data can provide:  

• A community-level perspective on what diseases are circulating locally
• An early warning that levels of infections are increasing or decreasing in a community
• An efficient, easy approach that doesn’t require visiting a doctor or getting tested for an infectious disease
• Data for communities where patients aren’t always able to get tested for infectious diseases.

State and local health officials track a variety of data and put this information together to understand the local situation and decide how to best respond to prevent disease spread. Public health officials watch for sustained increasing levels of specific viruses or bacteria in wastewater and use these data to alert clinicians, hospitals, and the community so that they can quickly take appropriate action to safeguard people’s health.

CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) collects, analyses, and shares data on multiple viruses and bacteria in wastewater, including SARS-CoV-2 and mpox. NWSS updates the data weekly and makes data available on wastewater data dashboards.

About the Wastewater Viral Activity Level: The Wastewater Viral Activity Level is a calculated measure that allows us to aggregate wastewater sample data to get state/territorial, regional, and national levels and see trends over time. Most simply, the value associated with the Wastewater Viral Activity Level is the number of standard deviations above the baseline, transformed to the linear scale. The current Wastewater Viral Activity Level for each state and territory is categorized into minimal, low, moderate, high, or very high as follows: a Wastewater Viral Activity Level less than 1.5 is categorized as minimal, greater than 1.5 and up to 3 is low, greater than 3 and up to 4.5 is moderate, greater than 4.5 and up to 8 is high, and greater than 8 is very high.

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-statetrend.html#print (Select Michigan in the dropdown menu)

The Iowa COVID-19 Tracker is also a great COVID tracking site, which pulls from CDC's wastewater data and a few other sources: https://iowacovid19tracker.org/