Mark McComb is tested for COVID-19 at the Mount Olympus Senior Center parking lot in Millcreek on Oct. 5. Utah health officials confirmed 1,343 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths on Tuesday. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials confirmed 1,343 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths on Tuesday.
School-age children accounted for 284 of those new cases — 137 cases were among those between the ages of 5 and 10, 64 cases were 11-13, and 83 cases were 14-17, according to a daily update from the Utah Department of Health.
The rolling, seven-day average for positive tests is 1,283 per day, and the average positivity rate of those tested is 15.2%. In Utah’s hospitals, 523 patients were receiving care for the disease Tuesday — an increase of six since the previous day’s report.
Vaccine data
On Tuesday, the health department confirmed 453 more breakthrough cases, meaning among patients who have been fully vaccinated more than two weeks ago. The state also confirmed 34 new breakthrough hospitalizations. No additional breakthrough deaths were confirmed.
State health officials and doctors have noted receiving the vaccine does not mean someone will not contract the coronavirus, but in most cases, it is protective against serious illness. The vaccine also does not cause a person to get COVID-19.
Since vaccines became available to the public early this year, the state has confirmed 24,117 breakthrough cases of the 533,526 total positive cases since the pandemic began. Utah health officials have also confirmed 1,213 breakthrough hospitalizations and 165 breakthrough deaths.
Health care workers administered 8,358 new vaccine doses since the previous day’s report, bringing the total vaccines given in Utah to 3,626,510.
In the last 28 days, unvaccinated residents have faced a 14.7 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19, 10.7 times greater risk of hospitalization, and 5.8 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people, health department officials said.
Since Feb. 1 people who are unvaccinated are at 8.9 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19, 7.5 times greater risk of being hospitalized, and 3.9 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people, according to the data.
The latest deaths include:
- A Davis County man, older than 85, who was not hospitalized when he died.
- A Salt Lake County man, 25-44, hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County woman, 25-44, hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
- A Washington County man, 65-84, hospitalized.
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