COVID-19 case rates in Utah are falling, but just barely
Utah reported 2,581 new cases of coronavirus in the week ending Sunday, down 3.5% from the previous week . Then, 2,674 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19 were reported.
Utah ranked 34th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States decreased 15.4% from the week before, with 344,463 cases reported. With 0.96% of the country's population, Utah had 0.75% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 16 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.
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Utah ranked 34th among states in share of people receiving at least one shot, with 39.8% of its residents at least partially vaccinated. The national rate is 44.3%, a USA TODAY analysis of CDC data shows. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which are the most used in the United States, require two doses administered a few weeks apart.
In the week ending Sunday, Utah reported administering another 132,249 vaccine doses, including 56,176 first doses. In the previous week, the state administered 164,421 vaccine doses, including 82,104 first doses. In all, Utah reported it has administered 2,167,913 total doses.
Within Utah, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Tooele, Salt Lake and Davis counties. Adding the most new cases overall were Salt Lake County, with 1,014 cases; Utah County, with 532 cases; and Davis County, with 307. Weekly case counts rose in six counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Davis, Wasatch and Salt Lake counties.
In Utah, 22 people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 18 people were reported dead.
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A total of 398,012 people in Utah have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 2,204 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 32,421,641 people have tested positive and 577,045 people have died.
Note: For Utah, Johns Hopkins University reports data mostly by health department, such as the combined Weber-Morgan agency. Weber and Morgan counties may be marked as having no cases. The county-level data for Utah is considerably worse than it is for any other state, and county comparisons may be wildly misleading.
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The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.
