SALT LAKE CITY – According to the Utah Department of Health, COVID-19 cases in Utah jumped 358 on Tuesday, with two more deaths and 30,001 vaccinations.
The moving seven-day average number of positive cases per day now stands at 406, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that period, calculated with the “people over people” method, is now 7.7%. The positive test rate per day for that period, calculated with the “test over test” method, is now 3.8%.
There are currently 124 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 59 in intensive care units, state data shows. According to the health department, about 64% of all beds in the Utah intensive care unit are now occupied, including about 67% of the intensive care beds in the state’s 16 referral beds. About 48% of non-IC hospital beds are now occupied, state data shows.
A total of 1,738,003 vaccine doses have been administered in the state, up from 1,708,002 on Monday. A total of 1,120,254 Utahns have now received at least one dose of vaccine, while 699,517 are now considered fully vaccinated. To date, a total of 1,956,010 vaccine doses have been shipped to Utah.
The new numbers indicate an increase of 0.09% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,455,549 people tested for COVID-19 so far in Utah, 15.9% have tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests conducted in Utah since the start of the pandemic now stands at 4,395,138, up from 15,222 since Monday. Of those, 5,683 were tests from people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19.
The two deaths reported Tuesday were a woman in Salt Lake County who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and hospitalized when she died, and a woman in Carbon County who was between the ages of 65 and 84. and was not recorded when she died.
Tuesday’s totals give Utah 390,647 total confirmed cases, with 15,804 total hospitalizations and 2,161 total deaths from the disease.
Utah HB294, also known as the pandemic “endgame” law, requires all state and local health ordinances related to COVID-19 to end the day Utah hits the threshold in three key metrics: the State’s 14-Day Case is less than 191 per 100,000 people, the seven-day average of COVID-19 intensive care unit use is less than 15%, and 1,633,000 prime doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been assigned to Utah.
The 14-day number of cases is now 173.1 and the 7-day COVID-19 ICU mean is now 10%. According to health officials, the state’s primary dose allocation is now 1,063,775. The threshold of 1,633,000 doses is expected to pass in the second or third week of May, health officials say. Prime doses refer to the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine cycles, as well as the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The Utah government, Spencer Cox, will provide a COVID-19 update Thursday at 10 a.m. during its monthly press conference with PBS Utah.
Health officials announced Tuesday that Utah will suspend administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after federal regulators said six cases of blood clotting had been reported in women who received the vaccine. No cases of blood clotting associated with the Johnson & Johnson product have been reported in Utah.