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
In the past week, 1,299 kids age 5-13 have tested positive. That’s 8x as many (162) as tested positive for the same period last year.
Six kids under age 14 were hospitalized over the weekend. #utpol
14 new cases of Delta sequenced, bringing total to 6,005.
Vax facts:
• 1,808,951 w/ 1 shot. Up 9,981 from Fri. Now at 55.3% of all Utahns, 69.5% of those eligible.
• 1,575,506 fully vaxxed, up 10,995. Now at 48.1% of all Utahns, 60.6% of eligible. #utpol
Here’s the list of schools with 5 or more cases in the past two weeks.
The number of school-associated cases is up 251 since Friday to 1,027 — 818 students, 88 teachers, 121 unknown/other. #utpol
More outbreaks in long-term care facilities. (Not good)
And here are the communities with the highest infection rates. Things have really blown up in Duchesne — 1 out of every 99 residents testing positive in the last two weeks. #utpol
Leave you with this …
Tomorrow at 9 a.m. Gov. Cox will hold his first Covid briefing in more than 3 weeks. He'll be joined by Chris Miller from Primary Childrens, @MarcHarrisonMD from Intermountain & Michelle Hofmann from @UtahDepOfHealth.
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