- June 22, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Although 64% of adults in Utah have received the coronavirus vaccine to date, state and business leaders are pushing for more to get vaccinated before the Fourth of July.
“We were very quick to get 60%, and then it’s a very, very difficult task to get that last 10% (of the state’s 70% goal),” said Rich Saunders, executive director of the Utah Department of Health.
“We want to prevent a resurgence in the fall. We want to do the right things to put this thing to bed and not relax before it’s all the way to bed,” he said.
The state has seen “some uptick” in recent cases and hospitalizations, which Saunders described as largely preventable. Since March 23, when those ages 16 and older became eligible for the vaccine, about 28,000 new cases have been confirmed in Utah. Of them, 96.8% were unvaccinated.
Of the 1,600 hospitalizations since March 23, 95.2% were unvaccinated, and 98.2% of the 113 who have died of COVID-19 in the past three months had not…
