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'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.
1,765 people in Utah have died of COVID-19. The17 deaths announced Friday are
- Male, between 45-64, Weber County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, older than 85, Salt Lake County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, older than 85, Salt Lake County resident, long-term care facility resident
- Male, between 65-84, Salt Lake County resident, not hospitalized at time of death
- Female, older than 85, Weber County resident, long-term care facility resident
- Female, older than 85, Carbon County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, older than 85, Cache County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Female, older than 85, Utah County resident, long-term care facility resident
- Male. older than 85, Weber County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, between 65-84, Box Elder County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Female, older than 85, Wasatch County resident, long-term care facility resident
- Male, older than 85, Utah County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, older than 85, Utah County resident, long-term care facility resident
- Female, older than 85, Salt Lake County resident, long-term care facility resident
- Female, between 65-84, Box Elder County resident, long-term care facility resident
- Male, between 65-84, Tooele County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- Male, between 65-84, Weber County resident, long-term care facility resident
UDOH is releasing some new types of statistics regarding the state's positive COVID-19 rates. Further details on those statistics appear below:
Trends:
Note: The UDOH is now reporting two measures of percent positivity. One measure is determined by dividing the total of unique individuals who tested positive by the unique number of people tested. We call this the "people over people" method. This method does not account for people who have had repeat positive or negative tests in the past 90 days. This is the method we've been using to report percent positive since the beginning of the pandemic. It biases the percent positivity higher in the current testing environment.
We will also report percent positivity based on the total positive tests divided by the total number of tests administered. We call this 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 accounts for people who have repeat positive or negative test results and more accurately reflects our increase in testing. It biases the percent positivity lower in the current testing environment.
While the specific percent positivity will be different between the two methods, the overall trends for each are very similar.
You can watch a discussion of these two methods here [youtube.com], or can read more about them here [coronavirus.utah.gov].
The rolling 7-day average for percent positivity of "people over people" is 15.3%. The rolling 7-day average for percent positivity of "tests over tests" is 7.0%.