There are fewer than 200 new cases of COVID-19 in Utah and no new deaths

As usual, Monday’s numbers are weak after a slow Sunday.

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For the second Monday in a row, the Utah Department of Health reported no new deaths from COVID-19. And, for the second Monday in a row, the number of new coronavirus cases fell below 200.

As is generally the case, the number of tests carried out on Sunday is also low: just over 2,400 people were tested for the first time and less than 4,700 tests were carried out. But the rate of positive tests was higher than the seven-day averages.

Doses of vaccine administered the previous day / total doses administered • 3,214 / 1,307,533.

Fully vaccinated utahns • 478,918.

Cases reported in the last day • 194.

Deaths reported in the past day • Nothing.

Hospitalizations reported in the last day • 138. That’s down four of Sunday. Of those currently hospitalized, 57 are in intensive care units – one more than on Sunday.

Tests reported the day before • 2,403 people were tested for the first time. A total of 4,664 people were tested.

Percentage of positive tests • Under the original state method, the rate is 8.1%. This is more than the seven-day average of 6.9%.

His new method counts all test results, including repeated testing of the same individual. Monday’s rate is now at 4.2%, above the seven-day average of 3.45%.

[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]

Totals to date • 384,756 cases; 2,114 deaths; 15,474 hospitalizations; 2,375,124 people tested.

Vaccination clinics have sprung up around Utah, from hospitals to supermarket pharmacies. They have also appeared in places as unusual as movie theaters and, in Spanish Fork, a closed Shopko store where Governor Spencer Cox received his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine last week.

One of the more unusual vaccination sites is in Park City, where the Summit County Health Department has partnered with Utah Movie Studios to set up a drive-thru vaccination clinic in the store area. studios.

The clinic can process up to 300 doses per day, said Phil Bondurant, deputy director of health for Summit County. The clinic is open three days a week – which reflects the number of doses the county receives in a week, Bondurant said.

“We can increase depending on the number of vaccines we have given,” said Bondurant, adding that the county has reached an agreement to use the studios at least until April.

People who book an appointment can drive into any of the three bays, get vaccinated, and then spend the 15-minute observation period in the studio’s parking lot, Bondurant said.

The county approached the studio in January, said Marshall Moore, vice president of operations for Utah Film Studios. The studio was in between major jobs, after Paramount television drama “Yellowstone” moved production to Montana after three seasons.

“It was a perfect fit for this [the county] necessary, ”Moore said. “The way the building was designed, they could do a drive-thru vaccination clinic. … The way it’s set up was exactly how they would have set it up if they had gone somewhere else and built it from scratch.

The drive-through clinic is in the studio’s workshop space, where sets are built, Moore said, so soundstages are still in use. Over the past several months, the Christian concert film “Lamb of God” and an advertisement for outerwear company Backcountry have been filmed there. Just before the clinic opened, rapper Post Malone used the studio to do motion capture work for a virtual concert, posted to YouTube last week, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pokémon game franchise.