SALT LAKE CITY (Feb. 4, 2021) — Click here to watch this week’s COVID-19 briefing.
ASL interpretation is provided. Traducción al español en Univision 32.
Some highlights from this briefing include:
- We’ve administered 362,701 doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
- We reached a really important milestone: We have now administered more doses than the number of people who have tested positive for COVID. Thanks to our health care providers and local health departments in this effort.
- On Feb. 2, the federal government announced they are increasing vaccines by 5%. That means Utah is receiving a weekly allocation of 42,000 doses a week.
- On March 1, we will lower the eligibility age to 65.
- In addition, people over age 18 with one of the following underlying medical conditions will be eligible:
- Solid organ transplant recipients.
- Certain cancers .
- Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from blood, bone marrow, or organ transplant; HIV; use of corticosteroids long-term; or use of other immune weakening medicines long-term.
- Severe kidney disease on dialysis or with stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease.
- Uncontrolled diabetes.
- Severe obesity.
- Chronic liver disease including chronic hepatitis B or C.
- Chronic heart disease (not hypertension).
- Severe chronic respiratory disease (other than asthma).
- Neurologic conditions that impair respiratory function, including Down’s Syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Parkinsons’s disease, cerebral palsy, quadriplegia or hemiplegia,-Stroke and dementia (Alzheimer’s, vascular, frontotemporal).
- Asplenia including splenectomy or a spleen dysfunction, including sickle cell disease.
Learn more by watching the entire COVID-19 briefing on YouTube or Facebook. You can find the latest information on the coronavirus in Utah at coronavirus.utah.gov.
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