The Detroit News has just reported “First case of omicron identified in Michigan in Kent County,” in article bylined by Hani Barghouthi, Craig Mauger, and Sara Rahal.

Piece opened by noting that it “was detected Thursday in a fully vaccinated Kent County resident ….

The west Michigan patient tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec 3, and genomic sequencing confirmed it was the highly contagious omicron variant and was reported to the state on Thursday, according to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services statement ….

Michigan became at least the 22nd state to report the variant. Omicron was named and designated a variant of concern by the World Health Organization on Nov. 26, about two weeks after it was first detected in Botswana and South Africa ….