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Chad Arbon does not accuse anyone of his father’s death – but he hopes Jim Arbon’s passing can provide one last lesson from schoolmaster Davis County.
‘It happened,’ Chad Arbon said of his father’s recent death from the coronavirus, ‘and we should just treat it and learn the lessons and keep going to make it happen again, that we learned some of the things you did.’ t went wrong this time. ”
Jim Arbon died Monday at the age of 80 after spending three weeks at North Davis Hospital. He is one of 335 Utahns who have now died from COVID-19, with five deaths reported on Friday:
- A Salt Lake County man over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility.
- A Davis County woman over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility.
- A Salt Lake County man, between 65 and 84, who lived in a long-term care facility.
- A Salt Lake County man, aged between 65 and 84, who died in a hospital.
- A Davis County man, between 65 and 84, who lived in a long-term care facility.
Jim Arbon was a teacher for 43 years. Most of that time was spent teaching art and business classes at Bountiful High School, Chad Arbon said. The family lived in a house in Kaysville that Jim Arbon had built in 1966, and that his widow still lives in.
Jim Arbon loves golf – and his family thinks it was on the golf course as shopping that he contracted the coronavirus, his son said. Chad Arbon said his mother and sister transmitted the virus to his father; the two women have recovered.
After a spike in statewide coronavirus cases Thursday, new diagnoses were down on Friday, with 460 reported cases and five new deaths.
For the past week, Utah has averaged 441 new confirmed cases per day, the Utah Department of Health reported. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has said he wants it to be on average seven days under September 1 among 400 new cases per day.
Statewide, Utah’s positive test rate has been above 9% since mid-June, according to state data.
The number of new test results reported Friday dropped to 3,709, continuing with a stretch of declining test demand. At the end of July, about 7,000 Utahns per day were tested.
Hospital admissions remained high on Friday, with 202 Utah patients admitted at one time, UDOH reported. On average, 197 patients received treatment in Utah hospitals each day over the past week – a figure that has declined in about a week to a peak average of 210.
A total of 2,578 patients were admitted to Utah Hospital for COVID-19, up 24 from Thursday.
Of the 43,375 Utahs who tested positive for COVID-19, 32,371 were considered “recovered” – that is, they survived at least three weeks after diagnosis.
