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.
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