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SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Health’s COVID-19 report for Wednesday shows an increase of 1,299 confirmed cases – bringing the state total to 357,339 – and 17 more 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.
1,765 people in Utah have died from COVID-19. The 17 deaths announced on Friday are
- Male, aged 45 to 64, resident of Weber County, hospitalized at time of death
- Male over 85, resident of Salt Lake County, hospitalized at time of death
- Male over 85, resident of Salt Lake County, resident of long-term care facility
- Male, aged 65 to 84, resident of Salt Lake County, not hospitalized at time of death
- Woman over 85, resident of Weber County, resident in long-term care facility
- Female over 85, Carbon County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male over 85, resident of Cache County, hospitalized at time of death
- Female over 85, resident of Utah County, resident in long-term care facility
- Man. over 85, Weber County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, aged 65 to 84, resident of Box Elder County, hospitalized at time of death
- Woman over 85, resident of Wasatch County, resident in long-term care facility
- Male, over 85, resident of Utah County, hospitalized at time of death
- Male over 85, resident of Utah County, resident in long-term care facility
- Female over 85, resident of Salt Lake County, resident in long-term care facility
- Female, 65 to 84, resident of Box Elder County, resident in long-term care facility
- Male, aged 65 to 84, resident of Tooele County, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, between 65 and 84, resident of Weber County, resident of long-term care facility
UDOH is releasing new kinds of statistics regarding the state’s positive COVID-19 rates. Further details on these statistics can be found below:
Tendencies:
Note: UDOH now reports two measurements of percent positivity. A measure is determined by dividing the total of unique individuals who have tested positive by the unique number of people tested. We call this the “people over people” method. This method does not take into account people who have had repeated positive or negative tests in the past 90 days. This is the method we use to report a positive percentage since the start of the pandemic. This skews the higher percentage of positivity in the current testing environment.
We will also report the percentage of positivity based on the total number of positive tests divided by the total number of tests administered. We call this the ‘test-by-test’ method, this method is now used by at least 37 other states and provides a better comparison of what is happening across the country. This method takes into account who has repeated positive or negative test results and more accurately reflects our increase in testing. It skews the percentage of positivity lower in the current testing environment.
While the percentage of specific positivity will be different between the two methods, the general trends for each are very similar.
You can watch a discussion of these two methods here [youtube.com], or can find out more here [coronavirus.utah.gov].
The 7-day moving average of the percentage of positivity of “people to people” is 15.3%. The 7-day moving average of the percentage of “test-to-test” positivity is 7.0%.
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