Demand for testing has dropped in recent days, potentially freeing up the state’s testing capacity. But health officials say they don’t want Utahns to flock back to the state’s testing sites just yet.
. Supplies needed to be saved for patients with health risks or those who were likely to expose vulnerable people, state officials said.
Utah is averaging about 8,500 new cases per day — down from nearly 11,000 about a week ago, but still astronomically high compared to the average 1,500-1,600 cases per day the state reported during the fall, before the highly contagious omicron variant arrived. With so many cases, identifying individual patients and outbreaks brings diminishing returns, Hudachko said.
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