SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Health’s report, COVID-19 for Wednesday, shows an increase of 1,299 confirmed cases – bringing the state’s total to 357,339 – and 17 additional deaths.
So far, 2,094,809 people in Utah have been tested for the disease.
A total of 442,476 vaccines have now been administered in Utah.
323 people in Utah are currently hospitalized with COVID-19.
1765 people in Utah died of COVID-19. The 17 deaths announced on Friday are
- Man, aged 45-64, resident of Weber County, hospitalized at death
- Male, over 85, Salt Lake County resident, admitted to hospital at death
- Male, over 85, Salt Lake County resident, long-term care resident
- Male, aged 65-84, resident of Salt Lake County, not admitted to hospital at death
- Female, over 85, Weber County resident, long-term care resident
- Female, over 85, Carbon County resident, hospitalized at death
- Male, over 85, resident of Cache County, hospitalized at death
- Female, over 85 years old, resident of Utah County, resident for long term care
- Male. older than 85, resident of Weber County, hospitalized at death
- Man, aged 65-84, resident of Box Elder County, hospitalized at death
- Female, over 85 years old, resident of Wasatch County, resident for long term care
- Man, aged over 85, Utah County resident, hospitalized at death
- Male, over 85 years old, resident of Utah County, resident for long term care
- Female, over 85, Salt Lake County resident, long-term care resident
- Female, aged 65-84, resident of Box Elder County, resident for long-term care
- Man, aged 65-84, resident of Tooele Province, hospitalized at death
- Male, aged 65-84, resident of Weber County, resident for long-term care
UDOH releases some new kinds of statistics on the positive COVID-19 rates of the state. Further details on the statistics appear below:
Trends:
Note: the UDOH now reports two measures of percentage positivity. One measure is determined by dividing the total number of unique individuals who tested positive by the unique number of people tested. We call this the method “people over people”. This method does not take into account people who have had positive or negative tests in the last 90 days. This is the method we have used since the beginning of the pandemic to report percentage positively. This favors the percentage of positivity higher in the current testing environment.
We will also report percent positivity based on the total number of positive tests divided by the total number of tests administered. We call it the ‘test over test’ method, this method is now used by at least 37 other states and provides a better comparison between what is happening across the country. This method is responsible for people who have positive or negative test results and reflects our increase in tests. This favors the percentage of positivity lower in the current testing environment.
Although the specific percentage of positivity will differ between the two methods, the general trends for each are very similar.
You can see a discussion of these two methods here [youtube.com], or can read more about this [coronavirus.utah.gov].
The running average of 7 days for percentage positivity of ‘people above people’ is 15.3%. The 7-day moving average for percentage positivity of ‘tests above tests’ is 7.0%.