Pam Anderson will get examined for COVID-19 at a NOMI Well being drive-thru check web site in West Valley Metropolis on Friday, June 10, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information
9 of Utah’s 29 counties have reached the medium group stage for COVID-19, up from simply three every week in the past.
The up to date map from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention exhibits a few third of U.S. counties are on the cautionary stage, together with Salt Lake, Summit, Weber, Grand, San Juan, Piute, Garfield, Kane and Washington counties in Utah. The remainder of Utah’s counties stay on the low stage.
That’s slightly below a ten% enhance within the variety of counties nationwide on the medium group stage, the place the CDC advises individuals to speak to their well being care suppliers about sporting masks and taking different precautions in opposition to catching the virus if they're at excessive danger of turning into severely ailing.
Those that stay with or spend time with individuals at excessive danger ought to think about masking up and testing for the virus, the CDC says, urging everybody to remain updated on their vaccinations, together with booster pictures obtainable to everybody 5 and older.
Pam Anderson, 68, of West Valley Metropolis, who acquired examined Friday for COVID-19, mentioned she’s fearful about residing in a county that’s on the CDC’s medium group stage for the virus. Anderson mentioned she’s thought-about at excessive danger as a result of she has COPD (continual obstructive pulmonary illness) and had open coronary heart surgical procedure up to now.
“It’s scary. We simply, I don’t know, we simply must do one thing, however I’m undecided what. We get type of lax about it after which it type of comes again and hits us once more,” the part-time workplace supervisor mentioned. “We simply can’t be lax, I assume. We have to masks up higher.”
She mentioned she could begin sporting a masks once more at instances despite the fact that that’s tough along with her COPD.
“It’s like I get this confidence from my boosters and my vaccines and all the pieces so I feel I’m OK. And that’s in all probability not right,” Anderson mentioned whereas ready for her check outcomes. The daughter she and her husband reside with in South Jordan whereas their house is reworked examined constructive a number of days in the past.
“I began coughing yesterday,” Anderson mentioned, including, “I really feel all proper. Calling herself “a fighter,” she mentioned she wished to know if she’s contaminated with the virus “simply to be on the secure aspect. As a result of if I'm, I don’t wish to exit and expose it to someone else.”
There have been 7,502 new COVID-19 instances reported in Utah over the previous week, together with a dozen further deaths from the virus, in line with the weekly Utah Division of Well being information launched Thursday. The weekly report confirmed 213 individuals are hospitalized within the state with COVID-19.
Extra telling is the greater than 31% leap within the day by day common of latest instances in Utah, now at 1,073, and the rise within the day by day common of latest hospital admissions for the virus, up greater than 21%. The day by day common variety of sufferers in an intensive care unit with COVID-19 has dropped simply over 10%, nevertheless, to beneath 17.
Utah’s demise toll from the virus is at 4,793 with the 12 further deaths reported Thursday, together with a Salt Lake County girl, 25-44; a Salt Lake County man, 45-64; a Tooele County girl, 45-64; 4 Utahns 65-84; and 5 Utahns 85 or older.
The CDC makes use of case counts in addition to hospital admissions and capability to decide group ranges of the virus underneath new metrics put in place earlier this yr, after the omicron variant despatched instances hovering to report ranges in Utah and the remainder of the nation.
Common masking is now beneficial by the CDC solely when group ranges hit the excessive mark.
Below the sooner metrics used to find out the COVID-19 danger by county that relied on decrease case counts, almost 79% have a excessive stage of transmission. In Utah, solely Wealthy County is at a average stage of transmission, though information isn't obtainable for Beaver or Daggett counties. The remainder of Utah is on the excessive stage.