Weekend Covid report:
🌡 2,718 cases, ⬆️ 276 from last weekend
🎓 534 school-age cases
😔 12 deaths, 2,584 total
🏥 431 hospitalized
🧪 17,564 people tested, 15.5% pos, 28,929 total tests, 9.4% pos
📈 7-day avg, 1,084 cases/day, 14.7%/10.5% pos
💉 20,896 vax doses given #utpol
Here’s breakdown by day:
8/20: 1,221 ⬆️ 83 from the prior week
8/21: 863 ⬇️ 23
8/22: 647 ⬆️ 230
13 cases were removed from the tally for quality control.
Hospitalizations up 12 from Fri. There are 173 Covid patients in ICU, up 15 from Friday. Referral ICUs 85.2% full. #utpol
Over the weekend there were 335 kids age 5-13 who tested positive.
For the past week 948 kids in that age group tested positive, compared to 134 same time last year. (7x last year’s level).
Four kids under age 14 were hospitalized over the weekend. #utpol
Risk Ratios
Over the past 28 days, unvacinated people are:
5x as likely to test positive
6.4x as likely to be hospitalized
5.1x as likely to die.
We did have four new breakthrough deaths announced today. Total is now 39.
Here is the info on all 12 deaths reported. #utpol
Added 519 new cases of the Delta variant, bringing total to 5,634.
Vax Facts:
• 1,780,883 have had 1 shot, up 11,089 since Friday. Now at 54.4% of all Utahns, 68.5% of those eligible.
• 1,548,921 fully vaxxed, up 9.993. That’s 47.3% and 59.5% respectively. #utpol
Here are the cases by school district so far this year. I’ve also calculated the rate per 100k population (although I had to use 2019 enrollment numbers). And I don’t know how to calculate the charter enrollment. #utpol
Finally, Tooele County has surged into the lead, with the highest rate of Covid, both at the Health District level and “small area" level. Wasatch Co. and Central Utah HD are high right now, too.
Risk Ratio
Over the past 28 days, unvaccinated Utahns are
• 5.4x as likely to test positive
• 5.9x as likely to be hospitalized
• 4.1x as likely to die.
Over the past week, unvaxxed people account for 88% of cases.
In last three weeks cases and hospitalizations have steadily risen. We don’t want to be here. Good news is vaccinations have been steady. Discouraged by large number not vaxxed. #utpol
@GovCox Cox: To those health care providers, our heart breaks that you’re going through this again. Especially caring for people who didn’t take the opportunity to protect themselves.
For first time in pandemic we had a moment Friday evening where there was no ICU space. #utpol
Cox: Rural hospital was looking to transfer a patient to a referral ICU and was turned away. Only lasted a few hours but in critical care every minute counts.
Cox says he will meet with the Lege this week. He’s met with Lege leaders regularly over last two weeks. #utpol
Hospitalizations down 2 since Friday. There are 178 Covid patients in ICU, down 6 from Friday. Referral ICUs 88.5% full.
Risk Ratios:
In last 28 days, unvaxxed Utahns are:
• 5.1x as likely to test positive
• 6.2x as likely to be hospitalized
• 4.9x as likely to die. #utpol