COVID-19
The Utah Department of Health’s (UDOH) Wednesday report of 35 COVID deaths includes 31 which occurred before Feb. 23 of this year. Among those deaths are four from the Bear River Health District: two Box Elder County men, one between 45-64 years and another between 65-84 years, plus a Cache County man over 85 years of age and a Box Elder County woman between 65-84 years.
UDOH reports since the start of the pandemic Utah has seen more than 4,600 COVID deaths, 240 of them from the state’s three northern most counties.
Utah’s first COVID death was reported exactly two years ago yesterday, March 22, 2020.
More than 927,000 positive COVID cases have been reported the last 24 months with over 51,000 of them from Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties.
The 119 new positive cases detected since Tuesday marks 12 straight days with case counts below 200. Those numbers have driven the rolling seven-day average for positive tests down to 126 cases a day.
UDOH reports that in the last 28 days, people who are unvaccinated are at 3.7 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19, 2.2 times greater risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19, and 1.9 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people.
There were 3,013 Utahns tested since Tuesday and almost five million people have been tested while more than 9.37 million total tests have been administered the last 24 months.
The new seven-day rolling average for percent positivity of “people over people” is 4.7 percent and the rolling seven-day average for percent positivity of “tests over tests” 2.7 percent.
The number of Utahns fully vaccinated is over 1.99 million, about 61 percent of the state’s total population. The most recent report from the Bear River Health District shows more than 59 percent of those in northern Utah are fully vaccinated and close to 260,000 vaccine doses have been administered in the district.
As of Wednesday 120 patients are hospitalized in Utah with the coronavirus, which is six patients fewer than Tuesday. With 20 coronavirus patients in intensive care units, that is one more than on Tuesday. There have been 33,888 Utahns hospitalized with the virus during the pandemic.