Thread by @RobertGehrke

Your Covid report for Tuesday:
🌡 1,140 cases, ⬆️ 177 from last week.
🎓246 school-aged cases #utpol
😔 9 deaths, 2,593
🏥 438 hospitalized
🧪 Testing data appears to be missing. I’ll get it later.
📈 7-day avg, 1,108 cases/day, 14.8%/10.5% pos
💉 5,747 new vax doses

Daily case average is back to where we were Feb. 8.

Hospitalizations up 19. There are 177 Covid patients in ICU, up four from yesterday. Referral ICUs are 84.3% full.

Here is the info on the nine deaths. #utpol

Risk Ratios:
Over the last 28 days, unvaccinated people are:
5x more likely to get infected
6.6x as likely to be hospitalized
5.9x as likely to die.

Of the 7,757 cases in the last week, 6,575 were unvaxxed. (84.8%)

There were 3 new breakthrough deaths reported. #utpol

As mentioned, 246 kids age 5-18 tested positive since yesterday. 147 of them were age 5-13.

In the past week, 963 kids age 5-13 tested positive, compared to 136 last year. (7.1x)

3 kids under 14 were hospitalized since yday.

Chart below & school cases in last 2 weeks.
#utpol

There were 381 new cases of Delta variant added, bringing total to 5,985.

Vax facts:
• 1,783,954 with 1 dose, up 3,071 from yesterday. Now at 54.5% of all Utahns, 68.6% of those eligible.

• 1,551,747 fully vaxxed, up 2,826. Now at 47.4% and 59.7% respectively. #utpol

More long-term care cases (see below).

Here are the positivity rates that were missing above:
🧪 7,415 people tested, 15.4% positive; 12,554 total tests, 9.1% pos.

Remember the Lege “endgame” kicked in when 14-day cases/100k was 191? We’re at 440 now. Unvaxxed are ~700. #utpol

Tooele Health District still has the highest 7-day infection rate followed by Wasatch.

For 14-day infection rates, So. Utah County neck-and-neck with Tooele. Here are Top 20 & Bottom 20 w/ vax rates. Interesting outliers in both (Midvale, Provo/BYU, etc.). #utpol

Ah heck. Let’s do a quick PoopWatch:

Below is the DEQ sewage monitoring. Yellow is better than red, but keep in mind those yellows mean its holding at VERY high levels.

Two examples, Payson & Orem, included. #utpol #utpoo💩