September2012 2020 COVID-19 Report of Senate District 8 A Special Report to Senator Kathleen Riebe Prepared by the Strategic Initiatives Group Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel Membership of the Utah Senate District Senator 1 Luz Escamilla 2 Derek L. Kitchen 3 Gene Davis 4 Jani Iwamoto 5 Karen Mayne 6 Wayne A. Harper 7 Deidre M. Henderson 8 Kathleen Riebe 9 Kirk A. Cullimore 10 Lincoln Fillmore 11 Daniel McCay 12 Daniel W. Thatcher 13 Jacob L. Anderegg 14 Daniel Hemmert 15 Keith Grover 16 Curtis S. Bramble 17 Scott D. Sandall 18 Ann Millner 19 Allen M. Christensen 20 David G. Buxton 21 Jerry W. Stevenson 22 J. Stuart Adams 23 Todd Weiler 24 Ralph Okerlund 25 Lyle W. Hillyard 26 Ronald Winterton 27 David P. Hinkins 28 Evan J. Vickers 29 Don L. Ipson as of September 1, 2020 OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND GENERAL COUNSEL John Q. Cannon, Director John L. Fellows, General Counsel September 30, 2020 Senator Kathleen Riebe Senate District 8 RE: COVID-19 Report of Senate District 8 Senator Riebe: The Strategic Initiatives Group was created to conduct long-term strategic planning to inform policy analysis on issues of statewide concern. We hope that this COVID-19 Report of your Legislative District will be of value as the Legislature evaluates new policy objectives to combat the pandemic and improve the Utah economy. This report relies on COVID-19 data from the Utah Department of Health, including the number of tests, positive cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, all information that has previously been reported by health district, and tabulates the information by legislative house and senate districts. To help assess the numbers of cases within public schools, the age categories in this report are modified to approximate the ages of children in elementary, middle, and high schools. For the foreseeable future, it is our intent to update this report at the beginning of each month. It is our hope that reporting this information by legislative district will not only allow legislators to understand the scope of the pandemic within the context of their respective district, but that it will also allow legislators to compare their district to other legislative districts. We trust that knowing the number of COVID-19 tests, positive cases, hospitalizations, and deaths by age, race, ethnicity, and gender, within each legislative district will be informative as you communicate with constituents about the pandemic. Please let us know if you have an idea about how the Strategic Initiatives Group may benefit the Legislature. Kind Regards, Jerry Howe Strategic Initiatives Manager Utah State Capitol Complex | W210 House Building | P.O. Box 145210 | Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 - 5210 Office: (801) 538-1032 | Fax: (801) 538-1712 COVID-19 Report of Senate District 8 September 2020 Prepared by the Strategic Initiatives Group Jerry Howe, Manager Joseph Wade Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel Using data provided by the Utah Department of Health Utah State Capitol Complex, House Building Suite W210 Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-5210 Data Notes We would like to acknowledge the Utah Department of Health for their cooperation in providing the data making this report possible. The data in this report is for the reporting period of March 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020 and represents four COVID-19 datasets: testing, case, hospitalization, and death counts. Count of Tests Administered, by Day: This dataset represents the total number of tests that were conducted on persons residing within each legislative district. This information can be used to assess the volume of testing that occurred. The date is based on when the test was taken. This dataset includes multiple tests that were performed on the same person. Count of Cases, by Week: This dataset represents the total number of positive COVID-19 cases confirmed of persons residing within each legislative district. The date is based on when the first positive test result was reported to public health. This dataset includes a person only once regardless of how many times that person tested positive. Case counts are also presented by age group, race/ethnicity group, and sex, within each legislative district. To help assess the numbers of cases within public schools, the age categories are modified to approximate the ages of children in elementary, middle, and high schools. Race/ethnicity groups are not mutually exclusive and do not sum to total. Count of Hospitalizations and ICU Visits, by Week: This dataset represents the total number of hospitalizations of persons residing within each legislative district. This dataset also includes the number of the hospitalizations that were also admitted to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). Count of Deaths, by Week: This dataset represents the total number of deaths of persons residing within each legislative district. Geocoding To tabulate the data by legislative district requires each person’s home address be geocoded. We would like to thank the Utah Department of Health for geocoding the records and providing us the data by legislative district. As such, personal information remains private with the Utah Department of Health. Geocoding is the process of converting each person’s home address to XY coordinates on a map. These coordinates are then used to assign each person’s record data to the respective House and Senate districts. Not all address data were able to be geocoded (and thus not included in the datasets) for the following two reasons: Insufficient address information: A record is determined to have insufficient address information if there is no address at all or if it has unusable text (e.g., “patient refused”, unknown”, or “no home address”). Poor quality address information: Sometimes, even when a record has sufficient address information, the geocoding process may return a poor-quality match (or no match at all). This is the case when the provided address does not exist. The following information for geocoding success results are presented below for both testing and case data: Testing Data • Total number of tests: 832,632 • Count with sufficient address information: 738,920 (88.7%) • Count of successfully geocoded records: • House: 728,995 (of all records: 87.6%; with sufficient address info: 98.7%) • Senate: 738,294 (of all records: 88.7%; with sufficient address info: 99.9%) Case Data • Total number of cases: 52,879 • Count with sufficient address information: 52,100 (98.5%) • Count of successfully geocoded records: • House: 51,236 (of all cases: 96.9%; with sufficient address info: 98.3%) • Senate: 51,486 (of all cases: 97.4%; with sufficient address info: 98.8%) Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Cover Page .................................................................................................................................................................. i Membership of the Utah Senate ................................................................................................................................ ii Letter from Jerry Howe .............................................................................................................................................. iii Title Page ................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Data Notes ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 1. TESTS Figure 1.1 -- Count of Tests Administered, by Day .............................................................................................. 5 Figure 1.2 -- District Comparison, Tests Administered, March – August ............................................................ 5 2. POSITIVE CASES Figure 2.1 -- Count of Positive Cases, by Week ................................................................................................... 6 Figure 2.2 -- District Comparison, Positive Cases, March - August ..................................................................... 6 Age Figure 2.3 -- Count of Positive Cases, by Age, by Week ............................................................................... 7 Figure 2.4 -- Count of Positive Cases, by Age, March – August .................................................................... 8 Figure 2.5 -- Count of Positive Cases, Age, Less than 1 year, by Week ........................................................ 9 Figure 2.6 -- District Comparison, Age, Less than 1 year, March – August ................................................... 9 Figure 2.7 -- Count of Positive Cases, Age, 1 - 5 years, by Week ................................................................ 10 Figure 2.8 -- District Comparison, Age, 1 - 5 years, March – August .......................................................... 10 Figure 2.9 -- Count of Positive Cases, Age, 6 - 11 years, by Week .............................................................. 11 Figure 2.10 -- District Comparison, Age, 6 - 11 years, March – August ...................................................... 11 Figure 2.11 -- Count of Positive Cases, Age, 12 - 14 years, by Week .......................................................... 12 Figure 2.12 -- District Comparison, Age, 12 - 14 years, March - August ....................................................