The Utah Department of Health will close its mass testing and monoclonal antibody facilities. People who need testing or treatment can get them from private providers.
"We will also retain some at-home test kits to help with targeted communities, and always working during this period to make sure testing is available to vulnerable communities," said Nate Checketts, the executive director of the state health department."So we will be continuing some sites in those communities and also a new self-collection model we will be developing over the next couple of months.
State health officials will also be monitoring people's poop — specifically wastewater samples — to determine if COVID-19 is surging in the community. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality has provided wastewater monitoring for over a year now, with significant accuracy on where the virus is in the state.
The Utah Department of Health said it intends to end its weekly mapping of COVID-19 transmission levels, referring people to maps created by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Dr. Nolen said she fully expects COVID-19 to surge again in Utah, but believes it can be managed.Checketts said the state health department is also prepared to ramp up again, should cases surge to the point where hospital capacity is threatened and the health care system is in danger of being overwhelmed.
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