SALT LAKE CITY — On Election Day, the rolling average for daily COVID-19 infections in Utah was 1,726, an alarmingly high number compared to earlier in the pandemic.
Two weeks later, the rolling average is 3,057.
23 of Utah’s 29 counties set records, many of them nearly doubling previous records for the number of cases in our tracking, which we conduct for each seven day period from Tuesday to Monday:
Record Weekly Cases
- Box Elder 318
- Carbon 120
- Cache 1021
- Davis 1918
- Duchesne 87
- Garfield 42
- Grand 55
- Iron 204
- Juab 62
- Kane (tie) 16
- Millard 37
- Morgan 96
- Rich 6
- Salt Lake 8150
- Sanpete 165
- Sevier 237
- Tooele 321
- Uintah 105
- Utah 4982
- Wasatch 226
- Washington 1144
- Wayne 14
- Weber 1908
We are beginning to see the lagging indicators of hospitalizations and deaths from our current surge. Recently, the average number of COVID-19 deaths reported each day has been over 8.
As of Tuesday, 512 people in Utah are hospitalized with COVID-19. 196 of those are in intensive care units.