The Utah Department of Health and Human Services is set to stop counting cases of COVID-19 next month. Is it time to start treating COVID-19 like just another illness?
"I think it's still too early to know," the professor said. "At the same time, from a public response standpoint, I think for a lot of people it's done already. It's been done for months," while others are still taking precautions.
The prescribed precautions, which also include testing and extra caution for those at risk of severe disease because of age or medical conditions, aren't too much to ask of the public, Kim said. University of Utah Health workers treat patients inside the medical intensive care unit at University of Utah Hospital on July 30, 2021. In Utah, there have been 1,095,398 COVID-19 cases reported since the pandemic began in early 2020, along with 42,753 hospitalizations and 5,341 deaths, according toUtah's death toll from the virus increased by eight over the past week, including two boys between 1 and 14 years old. One of the boys was from Salt Lake County, the other from Utah County.
The national emergency, first declared by then-President Donald Trump in March 2020, allowed the federal government to temporarily waive or modify some requirements related to Medicare, Medicaid and the state Children's Health Insurance programs."Happily, these are expiring at a time when there is very low cases coming into the hospitals. There's very little coming into our emergency rooms. Even our wastewater is looking pretty low," Nolen said.
"We have been planning and preparing for this for a long time," said Kendra Babitz, assistant director of the Office of Emerging Infections in the health and human services department. "We're a little bit ahead of other states in being more prepared for what this looks like."
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