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COVID-19 is still filling rural Utah’s hospitals. Now providers are bringing in the military.

Hospitalizations remain extremely high in some of Utah’s farther-flung corners, even as statewide data reflect sharp declines in cities.

(Intermountain Healthcare) Utah National Guard members approach St. George Regional Hospital on Feb. 8, 2022. The Utah National Guard has deployed 57 members to southwest Utah to work in the hospital and in long-term care facilities, as health care systems struggle to operate amid high numbers of COVID-19 infections and staffing losses during the pandemic.