More than 565,000 Utahns have been completely vaccinated against the coronavirus.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amy Christensen, left, chief nurse for specialty-based care at Intermountain Healthcare, helps right to unveil new artwork by artist Heather Olsen, Utah, and pay tribute to health workers at the forefront during COVID 19 Pandemic, Monday, April 5, 2021, in Murray.
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After a typical slow Sunday, the Utah Department of Health on Monday reported 173 new cases of COVID-19. Only 3,778 tests were taken.
This is the lowest number of new cases since there were 163 on March 21 – another Sunday.
More than 565,000 Utahns have been completely vaccinated against the coronavirus – about 17 percent of the state’s population. And another death has been attributed to COVID-19.
Vaccine doses administered in the past day / total doses administered • 2 326/1 498 039.
Utahns fully vaccinated • 565 539.
Cases reported in the past day • 173.
Deaths reported in the past day • One: A woman between the ages of 65 and 84 in Utah County.
Tests reported in the past day • 2 111 people were tested for the first time. A total of 3,778 people were tested.
Hospitalizations reported in the past day • 121. It’s eight from Sunday. Of those currently admitted to the hospital, 47 are in intensive care units – two more than on Sunday.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the state’s original method, the rate is 8.2%. This is higher than the 7-day average of seven days.
The state’s new method counts all test results, including repeated tests of the same individual. Monday’s rate was 4.65%, higher than the seven-day average of 3.5%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Total to date • 387,514 cases; 2,133 deaths; 15,625 hospitalizations; 2,413,193 people were tested.
An artist in Utah on Monday unveiled her “thank you” to frontline health workers dealing with COVID-19 – a large painting she donated to Intermountain Healthcare.
Heather Olsen, an artist in Riverton, said her painting, titled “Together We Can Do This,” was a result of meeting doctors and nurses and admiring their sacrifices to save lives during the pandemic.
“You are truly heroes,” Olsen told health workers during a revelation Monday at the Intermountain Transformation Center in Murray. ‘Every day changes your lives and makes you a difference. You make the world a better place. ‘
The painting, a collage of 11 doctors and nurses in action, ‘can I do to say,’ Thank you, ‘Olsen said. “It was big for me, and somehow almost healed. [It] made me feel comforted that these people are there and doing everything they can. ”
Prints of the painting will be distributed to hospitals and facilities on Intermountain. And health workers will have the opportunity to get personalized prints.
Olsen – inspired by her sister, a nurse – started painting images of health workers about a year ago when the pandemic began. Her first one showed a nurse wrapped in personal protective equipment and put on her gloves. (This painting was part of a collection of coronavirus-inspired works by Utah artists, compiled by The Salt Lake Tribune in April 2020.)
[Read more: How 21 Utah artists created images inspired by the coronavirus]
Although she gave the figure in that painting and others in subsequent paintings a generic face, Olsen said, “I had several nurses come to me and say, ‘You did me. ”
Elizabeth Hyde, a nurse from the intensive care unit at Intermountain, received one of Olsen’s paintings – which she delivered to her home at a time when Hyde said she was ‘exhausted, physically and emotionally’.
‘When she showed up at my door,’ Hyde said, ‘it gave me a boost and the assurance that I’m a good nurse, and I can do that, and I can benefit the community with what I do every day. do.’
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Intermountain Healthcare unveils new artwork by Utah artist Heather Olsen to pay tribute to health professionals at the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic during a unveiling on Monday, April 5, 2021 in Murray.