There was little but bad news in the Utah Department of Health’s weekly COVID-19 report on Thursday: More cases, high positivity rate and more deaths than the week before.
There was little but bad news in the Utah Department of Health’s weekly COVID-19 report on Thursday: More cases, a high positivity rate and more deaths than the week before.
State officials are looking less to new cases as a way to track COVID-19 spread — and more to metrics including wastewater analysis, hospitalizations and emergency room visits — because fewer people are getting tested. In the past week, 18,027 people were tested — a decrease of 3,385 tests from the week before. The weekly rate of positive tests though rose from 12.15% to 15.37%.
Those trends are a good reminder to get vaccinated for COVID-19 if you have not done so already, including booster doses, the health department advised. “The vaccines provide protection from COVID-19 and can protect you from serious illness and the inconveniences of missed work and other activities,” the statement continued.
“If you have higher levels of immunity, because you’ve had three doses of vaccine, or two doses of vaccine and an infection, or best yet three doses of vaccine and an infection — you’re pretty well protected,” Pavia continued. “But others, not so much.” But if you have not received any booster doses, or are 50 or older, immunocompromised or otherwise high-risk, “think about getting boosted now,” Webb said.“There have been a million Americans who have died. A million Americans — more than in all of the wars that we fought put together,” Pavia said. “We’re approaching about 1,600 deaths among children. That is about 16 winters worth of influenza deaths.
The state reported Thursday that four sites saw elevated COVID-19 levels. Nineteen sites were listed as under “watch,” meaning officials had detected enough of the virus to indicate “potential concern.” Last week, there were six sites with elevated levels and 17 sites on watch.
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