Active Cases - Utah & Key Utah Counties

It's been more than a month since I did a proper review of Active Cases.  In this entry I am only looking at Utah and dialing in on certain counties that are of most interest to me.  I'll have to revisit broader information later on.  Again - active cases is the "curve" we are trying to flatten so that the cases that require hospitalization don't overwhelm the healthcare system.  Though it is important to note that who has the active cases is very important too - younger people have milder cases overall and older people need more healthcare/hospital access for COVID.  And these graphs don't address the issue of who is getting sick at all.  Hopefully as we lift regulations and cases go up - they are people who are weathering the COVID-19 pretty well as a group.

This is the most up to date information being reported accurate to about July 7 or 8.  Where the officials didn't estimate active cases themselves, I chose to count cases that had been newly reported within the previous 20 days (assuming cases reported previous had concluded).  Was trying to see how these counties are doing relative to themselves and then to each other historically and in the present.  Utah has definitely been going up steadily for the past month overall.  Populous Salt Lake County (estimated 1,163,000) and Utah County (estimated 637,000) are also steadily increasing.

The state as a whole & Utah County are approaching the same number of cases per 1000 as Wasatch County had at its' peak in early June - around 3.7 people infected per 1000 of the population. 

Salt Lake County surpassed Wasatch County's peak of 3.7 people per 1000 around June 27th and continues to rise.  Currently sitting somewhere around 4.2 people per 1000.

The worst peak overall in this data was in Summit County (where Park City is) around March 27-April 17 they were above Wasatch County's peak of 3.7 per 1000, and reached as high as 6.2 per 1000 - April 8 & 9.  Using strong regulations they crushed that number down to below 1 per 1000 from May 20-June 11 and are now increasing very gradually... currently around 2.4 per 1000.

-Alice

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