SALT LAKE CITY – An official at the University of Utah said he believes the state will “look down” on masks in the state, despite the expected “bump” in coronavirus cases since school started.
“I feel more comfortable now than I did last month. Last month, we hit the maximum of our patients we are caring for in the hospital. We were ready for it, we managed it. We have created a separate space for those patients, and we also have additional providers. “But now we’re back for a smaller number of admissions,” said Dr. A.S., chief medical officer at the University of Utah Health. Thomas Miller, said during a news conference on Thursday.
He said it looks “really working”, as well as masking hand hygiene and other protective measures. In Australia, for example, where winter has already hit – the flu season as well as the country has seen “very, very few” flu cases compared to previous years, Miller said.
“And we believe it’s because they’ve been masked down to stop COVID, and that masking has also saved Austral Australians from the flu,” Miller said.
Utah on Saturday saw an increase in new COVID-19 cases, as health officials tested, 43,433 new cases out of 699 people were reported, and two additional deaths occurred. The rolling seven-day average for new cases is 406 per day, and the average positive test rate is 9.4%.
Still, “we’re all struggling to keep our defensive gear on because it’s unnatural,” Miller urged, urging people to remember that they are helping those who are weak in doing so.
Miller urged residents to get the flu vaccine as soon as possible.
“Those who belong to minority communities in Utah and are in need of workers also face higher rates of infection,” Miller noted, “and so we need to remember how the virus affects some people disproportionately. And so we need to think about them and also protect them.
The Covid-19 infection rate in the state’s Hispanic and Latino communities has dropped slightly to 35.8% from about 40% of previous epidemic cases, according to data from the Utah Department of Health.
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Since the epidemic began, Ut 68,, 72. Out of, 54,, 2૨ people have tested positive for the disease, with a positive rate of .9%, according to the Department of Health.
Currently, 120 patients are hospitalized in Utah with COVID-19, down from Friday. Of the state’s nearly 1,300 ventilators, 206 are in use. About 200,500 people in the state have been in need of hospital care since the outbreak.
Although two new deaths were reported on Saturday, the previous death was excluded from the state’s COVID-19 death toll for further investigation. The state toll is now 420.
The most recent deaths were between Sult Lake County between 65-84 and San Juan County between 45–64, both of whom were hospitalized after their deaths, health officials said.
In the state, 45,900 cases are considered as improvement after surviving the issue three weeks after the following diagnosis, i.e., about, 0000 cases are still active.
New Covid-19 cases were reported Saturday by the health district across Utah.
- Salt Lake County, 177
- Utah County, 130
- Davis County, 31
- Southwest Utah, 27
- Weber-Morgan, 23
- Bear River (Bax Elder, Cash, Rich), 12
- Summit County, 10
- Twill County, 7
- Washech County, 7
- Southeast Utah, 4
- Central Utah, 2
- Tricounty (Utah Basin), 2
- San Juan County,.
