”A lot of people ... pay attention to just the number of positive tests, and really the true marker of how severe this disease is in hospitalizations,” Dr. Wing Province, medical director of Park City Hospital, said in a news conference Thursday.
For example, Wednesday’s hospitalizations — previously reported as a record 776 patients admitted — were actually higher than that. The updated counts show 837 patients were hospitalized as of Wednesday, a record high that was topped once again on Thursday, when UDOH reported 843 Utahns were hospitalized with the coronavirus.
The state says this happened, in part, because of an error in its hospital reporting system, according to the Utah Department of Health. Rising rates of positive test results — and a lack of available tests — also played a role.for COVID-19 since mid-January, when testing sites were overrun with patients amid a proliferation of new infections.
”With such a limited number of tests that are available out there, it could be that people are just stopping testing. And as a result, we’re seeing a decline in cases,” said Province, addressing a recent decline in new cases in Summit County. The state also confirmed six new COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 4,097.
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