2 new cases of COVID-19 in Cache County, both under the age of 18

LOGAN – Two new positive COVID-19 cases were found in Cache County Saturday, both involving individuals under 18.

There are now 56 confirmed cases in the Bear River Health District.

The total of positive cases in Cache County is 40 and there have now been 16 in Box Elder County with no cases in Rich County.

The state death count for COVID-19 today is 25, two more than yesterday. One of the deaths is a female Utah County resident, older than 60, who died while hospitalized. The other is a male Salt Lake County resident, older than 80.

Saturday the Utah Department of Health reported 2,931 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 132 more than Friday. Those tested now totals 59,944. There have now been 251 hospitalizations.

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16 Comments

  • Stephanie Norton-Johnson April 18, 2020 at 5:59 pm Reply

    Oh course there is!? What’s more horrible, these 2 CHILDREN will be affected by this virus for LIFE! The damage to their lungs will NEVER go away!! But by ALL MEANS please feel free to GO OUT as normal because you think this is just an “over blown FLU”!!! ? Poor kids.

    • S April 19, 2020 at 11:43 am Reply

      AMEN

  • Kelly April 18, 2020 at 6:04 pm Reply

    So why don’t they tell us if it public related stores or they got it from being around family members they don’t tell us nothing

  • CommonCents April 18, 2020 at 7:52 pm Reply

    Observed: Cache County is living like it’s 2019. Non-essential businesses open all over. Very few masks worn in stores (other than employees). Family gatherings everywhere (just because you’re blood-related to someone, they may as well be a stranger as far as COVID is concerned). We can all wait now for the drippy GoFund Me appeals as people get sick, or worse, perish. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

    Is Cache Valley too cool to wear masks or avoid breathing on each other? I think the answer, sadly, is yes, and apparently another tattoo is more important than preventing the spread of a disease.

    • R Collins April 20, 2020 at 8:55 am Reply

      Please- look at the numbers!!! “Breathing on each other?” Are you serious? This is so overdone that our unemployment rates are higher than during the depression. More people are dying of suicide. The whole state has very few deaths. YES it’s contagious- but so is the common cold and I realize the severity – to those with underlying conditions- SO THEY CAN STAY HOME — and if YOU feel the need -YOU WEAR THE MASK. You don’t have the right to require ME to wear one. Do your research people -and that doesn’t mean watch CNN.

      • Nice April 20, 2020 at 2:17 pm Reply

        Fox News isn’t a realizable source either lololol

    • S April 20, 2020 at 4:07 pm Reply

      AMEN!!

  • Bo April 19, 2020 at 9:53 am Reply

    To Stephanie. Medical experts have found that children have considerably less severe symptoms than adults, and because of this they are much less likely to have lasting damage to their lungs. Even adult lungs with severe symptoms can recover, it just takes time.
    I’m not trying to say that you’re wrong to be concerned for them, and I certainly agree that people should continue to be careful, but I also think we should try to stay calm and positive. I guess you could say I’m Cheer Mongering ?.
    For information I recommend reading the Johns Hopkins Medicine article titled What Coronavirus Does To The Lungs.
    Have a beautiful day.

  • joey April 19, 2020 at 5:40 pm Reply

    Thank you

  • Free Bird April 19, 2020 at 7:21 pm Reply

    There used to be this old saying, “The land of the free and the home of the brave.”

    By reading the posts above, I believe we have turned into a nanny state!

    • Illegal Smile April 20, 2020 at 7:56 am Reply

      By reading your post above, I believe you live in a ninny state (of mind)!

    • Greg April 20, 2020 at 9:42 am Reply

      I love how everybody is so quick to list their rights but slow to remember the responsibilities.

  • Illegal Smile April 20, 2020 at 7:59 am Reply

    By reading your posts above, I believe you exist in a ninny state (of mind)!

    • Free Bird April 20, 2020 at 6:10 pm Reply

      You know, you sound like a broken record. I assume by your name that you are concerned as I am about all the illegal aliens bringing in all kinds of viruses etc. Take a look at this beautiful border wall being built to help stop this invasion. What do you think?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ6FX1_yXJU

  • Eloc Elad April 20, 2020 at 8:03 am Reply

    By reading your post above, I believe you exist in a ninny state (of mind)!

  • Tim April 20, 2020 at 3:40 pm Reply

    Yes people should take this more serious. Haven’t we learned from the past, in 2017-2018, 959,000 people were hospitalized and 61,099 Americans died from the flu. Schools were shut down people were told to stay home the economy was wrecked. Oh wait that didn’t happen, except for the people’s deaths. Every year thousands of people die. Wash your hands stay healthy do your part to keep others healthy. We need to live our lives not hold up in our homes and wait to die.

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