Thread by @RobertGehrke

Covid report for Wednesday:
🌡 1,585 cases, ⬆️ 97 from last week.
🎓374 school-aged cases
😔 12 deaths, 2,605
🏥 471 hospitalized
🧪 10,411 people tested, 15.2% pos. 17,759 total tests, 8.9% pos.
📈 7-day avg, 1,122 cases/day, 15.1%/10.7% pos
💉 10,904 new vax doses
#utpol

Today 23.6% of the cases are pediatric cases.

Hospitalizations jumped by 33 to 471, highest since Jan 22. Covid patients in ICU up 12 to 189. Referral ICUs are 87% full.

Here is the info on the 12 deaths reported. #utpol

In the past week, 1,001 kids age 5-13 tested positive compared to 153 for same period last year. The chart is below.

Four more kids under 14 were hospitalized since yesterday. That’s 11 since Friday and 16 in the past week. #utpol

Risk Ratios:
For last 28 days, unvaxxed are:
4.9x as likely to be infected
6.5x as likely to be hospitalized
5x as likely to die.

For past 7 days, unvaxxed account for 84.7% of cases, 83% of hospitalizations.

There were three new breakthrough deaths. Total now at 45. #utpol

Some pretty bad numbers on long-term care outbreaks. (See below).

Also, below is the table showing confirmed Covid cases by school district for the past 14 days. #utpol

Added 3 new sequenced Delta cases, bringing total to 5,988. But that number doesn’t really mean much.

The CDC estimates that in Region 8, which includes Utah, Delta now accounts for 99.7% of all cases — which raises the question, when do we stop calling it a variant? #utpol

Vax facts:
• 1,790,081 have had one shot, up 6,127 since yesterday. Now at 54.7% of all Utahns, 68.8% of those eligible.

• 1,556,679 are fully vaxxed, up 4,932. Now at 47.6% of all Utahns, 59.8% of those eligible.

Still averaging right around 8,000 doses per day. #utpol

Tooele still has the worst infection rates. Since yesterday 1 in every 1,000 Tooele residents tested postive. Tooele is followed by Wasatch and Central Health District.

On the more local level, here are the 20 communities with highest infection rates and their vax rates. #utpol

I’ll just leave you with this, the weekly report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which found that for the week of Aug. 12-19, cases in children climbed 22.4% and 24 kids died.