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.

(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.

Utah undercounted COVID hospitalizations by scores of patients, new data reveals

By Paighten Harkins | Scott D. Pierce | Erin Alberty | January 28, 2022, 12:39 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Long lines of cars snake around West Jordan City Hall and past the adjacent West Jordan Library on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, as people wait for COVID-19 testing.

Utah officials still recommend not to get tested for COVID. Here’s why.

By Erin Alberty | January 27, 2022, 6:03 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Christopher Lee, left, is tested for COVID-19 at a center run by Granite School District and the Salt Lake County Department of Health near Thomas Jefferson Junior High in Kearns, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022.

Utah reports record high COVID-19 hospitalizations, nearly 7,500 new cases

By Erin Alberty | January 26, 2022, 11:45 p.m.

(Screenshot via covid.cdc.gov) Data posted Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show Utah's COVID-19 infection rate was the highest in the nation during the week that ended the previous day. But Utah's data included cases from the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend — a reporting delay not reflected in all states' data.

Feds say Utah had worst COVID-19 rate in the country. Here’s the catch.

By Erin Alberty | January 27, 2022, 12:16 a.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A steady line of vehicles filled with multiple people waiting to be tested for Covid19 are tended to by members of the Utah Department of Health at the Cannon Health Building, Dec. 27, 2021.

Utah reports 6,600 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, near-record hospitalizations

By Erin Alberty | January 26, 2022, 1:03 a.m.

Utah reports nation’s 3rd worst COVID rate, with nearly 22,000 new cases, 33 deaths

By Erin Alberty | January 25, 2022, 3:41 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A new treatment center for monoclonal antibodies is shown to media on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in Murray. The Utah Department of Health, which operates the facility, will no longer use race and sex as a factor in determining who gets limited treatment for COVID-19.

Utah eliminates race and sex as factors in monoclonal antibody COVID treatments after ‘legal concerns’

By Erin Alberty | January 22, 2022, 1:13 a.m.

Utah reports 11,600 new COVID-19 cases, almost certainly undercounting actual infections

By Erin Alberty | January 21, 2022, 10:07 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Asher Williams, 12, gets his second COVID-19 shot from Lee Moss, a member of the medical reserve core as Salt Lake City’s westside residents get the opportunity to get vaccinated while also picking up a new winter coat and shoes for their children thanks to a partnership between Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Education Foundation, Salt Lake City School District, Salt Lake County Health, Operation Warm and Intermountain Healthcare at Rose Park Elementary on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.

Utah data helps confirm: COVID vaccine booster is crucial to avoiding hospitalization with omicron

By Erin Alberty | January 21, 2022, 7:46 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of Yvonne Francis) Justin Lee Francis, 3, is treated for COVID-19, asthma, pneumonia and other illnesses in January 2022 at Primary Children's Hospital.

Not so mild? Hospitalizations exploding among Utah infants, children with COVID-19′s omicron strain

By Erin Alberty | January 21, 2022, 3:26 p.m.