SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns continue to spread the coronavirus at a pace that breaks records week to week, and it's happening in every corner of the state and in urban and rural areas.
In the video above, we explore the numbers in the counties currently experiencing the highest rates of COVID-19, and we put those rates in perspective by comparing them to the proportion of people in the county who have tested positive in the previous fourteen days. For example: in Salt Lake County, one of every 69 residents has tested positive for COVID-19 in the last fourteen days.
Twenty of Utah's 29 counties set new records for cases accumulating over the week.
Record-setting positive case total from 11/17-11/23, by county:
- Beaver: 31
- Cache: 1,033
- Carbon: 143
- Daggett: 2
- Davis: 2,319
- Duchesne: 111
- Emery: 47
- Garfield: 55
- Iron: 306
- Kane: 30
- Millard: 69
- Rich: 8
- Salt Lake: 8,588
- Sanpete: 261
- Summit: 224
- Tooele: 418
- Uintah: 158
- Utah: 5,600
- Wasatch: 300
- Washington: 1,429
San Juan County saw an increase week-to-week, but it did not top the height of the outbreak on the Utah portion of the Navajo reservation they experienced in the spring. It had 69 cases in the past week.
Six other counties had their second-worst week — their record being set the week before:
- Box Elder: 317 (down one from previous week)
- Grand: 47 (down 8)
- Juab: 46 (down 16)
- Morgan: 91 (down 5)
- Sevier: 147 (down 90)
- Weber: 1,418 (down 490)
Only two counties saw a significant decrease that didn't approach their previous highs.
- Piute: 1
- Wayne: 3