Utah COVID-19 cases continue to surge coming into the end of summer and local hospitals continue to be significantly impacted by the influx of both COVID-10 and non-COVID patients needing care.

Doctors at Intermountain Healthcare address the increasing case counts and hospitalizations while sharing the latest data with the public during their COVID-19 Community Update.

Intermountain Healthcare Infectious Diseases Physician Dr. Todd Vento will provide the update.

The update can be watched below:

On Thursday, the Utah Department of Health reported another large number of new COVID cases – 1,885 – with 582 hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Over the past several weeks, officials at Intermountain Health said ICUs and acute care units have regularly exceeded 100% capacity.

As of Friday morning, patient volumes in Intermountain’s ICUs across the state are at 100% and 97% in acute care units.

Doctors and health officials continue to urge everyone to get vaccinated as the vast majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated.