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.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Brandon Webb, left, chair of Intermountain Healthcare’s COVID-19 Therapeutics team — pictured here in April 2020 — said on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, that Utah health experts are concerned about a new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus spreading across Utah.

Utah hospitals again running out of room, as a more contagious coronavirus variant threatens more illness

By Erin Alberty | January 20, 2021, 12:31 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dan Richards, CEO, pharmacist of Meds In Motion Pharmacy, talks about elected and health officials teaming up to fight the coronavirus in a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, Friday, March 20, 2020.

Utah pharmacist central to hydroxychloroquine controversy pleads guilty in federal court

By Erin Alberty | January 15, 2021, 9:05 p.m.

Utah demand for COVID-19 vaccine is ‘off the charts,’ as seekers overwhelm Salt Lake County’s online sign-up

By Scott D. Pierce | Erin Alberty | January 14, 2021, 2:34 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune file photo) Dan Richards, CEO of Meds In Motion Pharmacy, speaks about the fight against the coronavirus at the Utah Capitol, Friday, March 20, 2020. Richards is now accused of receiving the controversial coronavirus drug hydroxychloroquine from an unregistered manufacturer in China, in April 2020 shipments that were labeled as an herbal supplement.

Exclusive: Feds accuse Utah pharmacy CEO of getting mislabeled hydroxychloroquine from China

By Andrew Becker | Special to The Tribune | Erin Alberty | January 12, 2021, 6:59 p.m.

(Jeffrey D. Allred | Deseret News, pool) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at the Utah State Capitol during the weekly COVID-19 press conference in Salt Lake City, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021.

Gov. Spencer Cox promises to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations in Utah

By Sean P. Means | Erin Alberty | January 12, 2021, 4:56 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Wendy Moench claps as she exclaims “COVID go away!” while receiving the Moderna vaccine alongside other seniors and staff at assisted living center The Ridge Foothill in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, as the rollout continues at long-term care facilities.

Utah’s nursing homes welcome their first COVID-19 vaccines with noisemakers and applause

By Sean P. Means | Erin Alberty | January 7, 2021, 4:59 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune). Rebecca Searcy tests a patient for Covid-19 at the Intermountain Healthcare Taylorsville Instacare, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020.

A power struggle over Utah’s pandemic response: 5 key findings from hundreds of emails.

By Bethany Rodgers | Taylor Stevens | Erin Alberty | January 4, 2021, 2:40 p.m.

(Scott Sommerdorf | Tribune file photo) Kristen Cox, Executive Director of the Utah Office of Management and Budget, turns to answer a question about the Governor's budget during Utah Governor Gary Herbert's visit with The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Cox has since left state office but email correspondence shows her department was heavily in Utah’s early coronavirus response.

Exclusive: Utah leaders went rogue in early coronavirus response, emails from health experts show

By Bethany Rodgers | Taylor Stevens | Erin Alberty | January 4, 2021, 2:39 p.m.

U of U day care director says she was fired for trying to stop a plan to admit more kids than state rules allow

By Erin Alberty | January 3, 2021, 5:26 p.m.

(Steve Griffin | Tribune file photo) A Rocky Mountain Power crew works on power lines in Salt Lake City in 2013. Rates will drop about 0.7% in January, Rocky Mountain Power announced in a news statement Thursday.

Electric bills to drop slightly in Utah in 2021

By Erin Alberty | January 1, 2021, 5:48 a.m.