Utah health officials report big jump in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

[TomCADem]

Source: Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Another 1,007 cases of COVID-19 were announced in Utah on Wednesday, including a record number of newly hospitalized patients with the virus.

To date, more than 80,446 cases have been confirmed throughout the state.

The rolling seven-day average number of positive tests per day is 1,044, the highest it has been since the Utah Department of Health began tracking weekly averages. The rolling seven-day average for percent of positive lab tests is 13.8%.

The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Utah jumped by 55 on Wednesday, with 226 people currently being treated with COVID-19 in hospitals throughout the state.

Read more: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/10/7/21505993/coronavirus-daily-cases-health-officials-report-big-jump-in-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-deaths

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Perhaps Pence will lecture Utah residents who are hospitalized not to be afraid or let COVID-19 dominate their life.

[likesmountains 52]

1. Pence will be tossing out free Regeneron to attendees!

[BlueNProud]

2. Cool let's travel cross country there to have a debate!

[progree]

3. Utah #5 in daily new cases per capita, 7 day moving average

After #1 NoDak, #2 SoDak, #3 Wisconsin, #4 Montana

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Alternative to NY Times: https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

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The trend:
daily new cases, 7 day moving avg, 14 day change: +21%
2.56-fold increase from 9/11 to 10/6
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/utah-coronavirus-cases.html

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Test positivity rate: 13.3% vs. like about 4.4% for U.S. overall
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/utah

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24th lowest in testing (so about the median) - 2.4 tests per 1,000 (I think its a 7 day total)
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/tracker/overview