'It could have ended long ago if we just put the needs of others ahead of our own,” one doctor said as a record 854 COVID patients were hospitalized & 10 more Utahns died from the virus.
, one Utah doctor says the coronavirus has become “a pandemic of personal moral character.”
“It’s a disease and a pandemic that could end. It could have ended long ago if we could just put the needs of others ahead of our own,” said Dr. Wing Province, medical director at Park City Hospital. “... It just takes each one of us ... to put the needs of others ahead of our own, to go and to wear a mask when you’re in public, to get vaccinated and boosted.”
Utah reported 6,166 new COVID-19 cases Friday as well as another record number of patients hospitalized with the virus. The Utah Department of Health reported 854 Utahns were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Friday, up from Thursday’s 843. Before January, the record number of hospitalized COVID patients was 606, in December 2020. State officials on Thursday announced that
a data error had caused inaccuracies in hospital counts for months, significantly undercounting them in recent weeksThere were 184 COVID patients in intensive care units as of Friday. ICUs in the state’s larger, “referral” hospitals were at 91.2% capacity — above the 85% threshold that hospital administrators have said is necessary to leave room for unpredictable staffing levels, new patients and availability of specialized equipment and personnel.
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