Erin Alberty

reporter

Erin is a reporter who has previously been an outdoor columnist and worked the crime beat. She was the lead reporter on The Tribune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of campus sexual assault. She has worked at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa and taught English for two years at teacher-training colleges in China.

(Courtesy of Sevier County Sheriff's Office) Crews go out on Fish Lake in Sevier County on Friday after a boat was reported to have capsized.

Crews recover body of 13-year-old boy after boat capsizes in central Utah’s Fish Lake

By Erin Alberty | Andy Larsen | October 24, 2021, 9:42 p.m.

(NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP) This image made available by NASA shows the Cat's Paw Nebula inside the Milky Way Galaxy located in the constellation Scorpius, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Its distance from Earth is estimated to be between 1.3 kiloparsecs (about 4,200 light years) to 1.7 kiloparsecs (about 5,500 light years).

Salt Lake County calculated COVID-19 vaccination rates by zodiac sign. The news is not good for Scorpios.

By Erin Alberty | October 20, 2021, 5:05 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Marc Harrison, president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, speaks during a news conference Aug. 31, 2021, in Salt Lake City. On Monday, Harrison highlighted the need for more Utahns to get vaccinated in light of Colin Powell's death from COVID-19. Powell had the same type of blood cancer that Harrison has; multiple myeloma leaves patients immunocompromised and at risk of contracting COVID-19 even if they are fully vaccinated.

‘Somebody is killing us’: Intermountain CEO has same cancer as Colin Powell, who died from COVID-19

By Erin Alberty | October 19, 2021, 3:22 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Spencer Lowe administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a drive-thru event organized by the Utah County Health Department in Spanish Fork on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021.

Utah surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 deaths as more young patients succumb to the virus

By Erin Alberty | Scott D. Pierce | October 13, 2021, 1:05 p.m.

(Ranger Peterson) Friends and family pay tribute to Aaron Navarro at a fundraiser softball tournament on Sept. 10, 2021, less than a week after Navarro died from COVID-19 in St. George. Navarro and Nathan Spendlove, left, have long been instrumental in addiction recovery support groups and sports leagues in southwest Utah. Navarro's daughters, Dallas and Saleena Navarro, center and right, wear their father's jersey in his honor. The dates on the shirts signify a sobriety "birthday," or the date when recovery began.

Coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations surge in southwest Utah as vaccine rates remain low

By Erin Alberty | October 12, 2021, 2:59 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Syringes for Utah County residents to get their COVID-19 vaccinations in a former Shopko store in Spanish Fork, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.

More Utahns now in ICUs than there are staffed beds available, state reports

By Sean P. Means | Erin Alberty | October 8, 2021, 9:08 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A new treatment center for monoclonal antibodies is shown to media, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, in Murray. The Utah Department of Health, which will operate the facility, will treatment high-risk patients sick with COVID-19 and provide infusions for up to 50 people per day.

Only COVID-19 patients scored as high risk will get popular monoclonal antibody treatment at new Utah center

By Erin Alberty | September 24, 2021, 3:01 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Teachers greet students as they begin the first day of school at Whittier Elementary in West Valley City, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. It can take some analysis, at this point, to determine whether the mask mandate in city schools has made a difference in the spread of the coronavirus.

Is the mask order in Salt Lake City schools making a difference? Here’s what early COVID-19 case numbers show.

By Erin Alberty | September 23, 2021, 5:08 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of Neil Warner) Jeannie and Neil Warner did not have a chance to say goodbye when Jeannie died from the coronavirus. Neil also tested positive and was in quarantine when Jeannie was placed in a medically induced coma. The Provo couple would have celebrated their 36th anniversary less than two weeks after Jeannie's death on Aug. 18, 2021.

When unvaccinated Utahns die, loved ones are left to process blame, defensiveness, and regrets

By Erin Alberty | Sean P. Means | September 19, 2021, 2:07 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Intermountain Medical Center in Murray on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021.

Intermountain to merge with Colorado-based hospital system

By Erin Alberty | September 17, 2021, 12:44 a.m.