COVID-19
After two years of daily COVID reports, the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) Thursday issued the last of the updates which have featured COVID-19 data since March of 2020. The state will now update its statistical dashboard once a week, on Thursdays, starting next week.
Thursday’s final report also included the news that the number of Utahns considered fully vaccinated had surpassed two million, which means more than 60 percent of Utahns have received the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.
The state recently announced plans to focus on a more “long term, sustainable response” to the pandemic as it shuts down many testing facilities.
From the start of the pandemic the lives of 4,714 Utahns have been lost to the virus. That includes 246 in Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties.
UDOH reported 140 new positive cases of coronavirus Thursday and the rolling seven-day average for positive tests is 111 a day. Since the start of the pandemic there have been 927,922 positive cases in Utah.
Thursday 93 Utahns statewide are hospitalized with COVID which is two fewer than Wednesday while 19 of those patients are in intensive care, one fewer than reported on Wednesday. And since the pandemic began 34,034 Utahns have been hospitalized.
With 3,447 people vaccinated since Wednesday more than five million doses have been administered statewide.
More than 4,000 Utahns were tested since Wednesday which means more than five million people have been tested and over 9.4 million total tests have been administered the last 24 months. Total tests administered since Wednesday is 4,123.
The latest seven-day rolling average for percent positivity of “people over people” is 4.0 percent while the rolling seven-day average for percent positivity of “tests over tests” is 2.9 percent.
Idaho’s Thursday COVID update indicates 4,873 coronavirus deaths and a new total of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 444,002 statewide.