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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Department of Health says no new swine flu-related deaths have been reported in the week that ended Saturday.
The total number of swine flu-related deaths reported this flu season remains at 14. The season started Aug. 30.
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State health administrators say they're not ready to give the obese priority status to get the swine flu, even though there is early evidence that group may be getting harder hit by the H1N1 strain.As of the week that ended Saturday, Utah health officials say there have been 623 hospitalizations associated with both the seasonal flu and swine flu this season. That's an increase of 103 over numbers reported a week earlier.
Of the new hospitalizations, 37 happened over the week that ended Saturday and 66 happened before that weren't reported until last week.
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