Utah's latest coronavirus data released from the state Department of Health.
unless they have health risks or are likely to expose vulnerable people.
But with about 30% of all tests coming back positive during the past week, Utah is almost certainly undercounting its cases. The higher the percent positivity, the likelier it is that a large number of infected residents are not being tested and may be spreading the virus unwittingly. State health officials have said the positivity rate would have to drop to 3% to suggest the virus is under control. Instead, 25% of the test results reported since Friday were positive.
Utah’s hospitals remained near capacity, and the number of currently hospitalized COVID-19 patients — 738 — is down slightly from Friday’s 765 but far higher than the record before this month: 606 patients in December 2020. There are fewer COVID patients in intensive care units now than there were then . But hospital staffing is tighter now than it was in 2020, Utah hospital administrators have said.
In the past two weeks, the state has reported 152 children under age 15 were hospitalized with COVID-19.
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