The WEDNESDAY Covid report:
🌡 1,539 cases, ⬇️ 146 from last week.
🎓362 school-aged cases
😔 8 deaths, 2,693
🏥 483 hospitalized
🧪 10,349 people tested, 14.9% pos. 18,148 total tests, 8.5% pos.
📈 7-day avg, 1,362 cases/day, 12.4%/9.3% pos
💉 No report on vax doses
#utpol
Got the day right on the 3rd try.
The vaccine data is undergoing quality analysis and will be back tomorrow.
School-aged cases are 23.5% of total.
One of the eight deaths was a 15-24 year old female from Iron County. Here is the info on all eight. #utpol
People tested metric was down 20% since last Wednesday. So the decrease cases is nice, but we need to watch the rest of the week.
Hospitalizations are down 1. Covid patients in ICU even at 175. Referral ICUs 88.2% full.
Three kids under age 14 hospitalized since yday. #utpol
Risk Ratios
In past 28 days, unvaxxed people are:
• 5.4x as likely to test positive
• 6.2x as likely to be hospitalized
• 4.4x as likely to die.
Cases among vaxxed appear to be leveling off. Not so for unvaxxed who make up 88.4% of caess in the past week. #utpol
Breakdown of school-age cases:
5-10: 138 cases
11-13: 99
14-17: 125
186 kids age 5-11 tested positive since yesterday. That’s 1,219 for the week, compared to 98 for the same week last year. (12.4x). Chart below. #utpol
School-associated cases up to 3,033, — 370 new cases among students (2,584 total) and 21 new cases in teachers (210 total). Rest unknown.
31 new cases in long-term care facilities. #utpol
Again, take it for what it’s worth, CDC forecasts 191 deaths in the coming four weeks — 44, 49, 49, 49. Cases declining.
CDC also estimates 99.6% of cases in Region 8 (incl. Utah) are Delta. 0.1% are the new Mu variant. GISAid.org puts Mu number at 65 cases. #utpol
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