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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital, on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. Intermountain Health hospitals and clinics no longer require visitors and patients to wear face masks as of Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

Intermountain ends hospital mask requirements as Utah COVID case counts slow

By Paighten Harkins | Christopher Cherrington | March 17, 2023, 9:16 p.m.

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Family members in Johannesburg, South Africa, gathers to observe the Sabbath Day within their home and to video chat with extended members of their family to discuss the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum, July 19, 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Natalie Brown: Why Latter-day Saint services should always make room for Zoom

By Natalie Brown | Special to The Tribune | March 12, 2023, 2:06 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A worker at the food pantry at Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City, as seen in June. Utah officials said Friday that federal pandemic emergency assistance with food and rent will both be phased out in March 2023.

Why thousands of low-income Utahns may have even less income in March

By Tony Semerad | February 4, 2023, 5:24 p.m.

(Wilfredo Lee | AP) CDC coronavirus COVID-19 vaccination cards. A Midvale plastic surgeon and four others were indicted Jan. 11 for allegedly providing fraudulent vaccine cards to individuals who did not receive vaccine doses.

Utah plastic surgeon gave kids saline shots instead of COVID vaccine in fraud scheme, prosecutors say

By Jordan Miller | January 20, 2023, 8:34 p.m.

(U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr./Department of Defense via AP) In this Feb. 9, 2021 photo provided by the Department of Defense, Hickam 15th Medical Group host the first COVID-19 mass vaccination on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. Some Utah politicians are backing a provision of the NDAA that would end the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Should the military still require the coronavirus vaccine? These Utah Republicans think not.

By Emily Anderson Stern | December 7, 2022, 8:50 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Physically distance worshippers attend Mass on Ash Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church in Salt Lake City in 2021. A new study questions whether faith dropped dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Did faith fall off a cliff during COVID? New study says no.

By Bob Smietana | Religion News Service | November 15, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital, on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. The hospital is "full to the brim" with young patients amid a surge in young patients with RSV, officials said.

Utah children’s hospital is ‘full to the brim,’ but not turning away patients

By Kolbie Peterson | November 15, 2022, 7:42 p.m.

(Photo: Business Wire) Employees are growing increasingly uneasy about where they are working.

Workers are doing plenty of post-pandemic soul-searching

By Bob Helbig | Special to The Tribune | November 3, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) In November 2020, a sign encouraged masks at City Creek in Salt Lake City. Heading into this winter, Utahns may want to return to using masks with a possible 'triple-demic' of COVID-19, flu and RSV viruses circulating, University of Utah Health doctors said Wednesday.

Here’s why Utah doctors are worried about how well you’ll be breathing this winter

By Sheila McCann | Paighten Harkins | October 27, 2022, 9:16 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes speaks in his office about a lawsuit filed by Utah and other states against Google, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. On Oct. 21, 2022, Reyes joined 10 other GOP attorneys general calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to include the COVID-19 vaccine on a list of child immunizations.

Why doesn’t Utah A.G. Sean Reyes want the COVID-19 vaccine on the CDC’s child immunization list?

By Jacob Scholl | October 26, 2022, 1:25 a.m.

(Kelley Smith | La Porte County Herald-Dispatch via AP) In this Oct. 19, 2020, file photo Michigan City, Ind., area school students return for in-person instruction after two months of remote learning to start the new school year. The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at the scale of the crisis.

Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US

By Collin Binkley | The Associated Press | October 24, 2022, 5:57 p.m.

(Pfizer via AP) This August 2022 photo provided by Pfizer shows vials of the company's updated COVID-19 vaccine during production in Kalamazoo, Mich. U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives.

Another round of COVID shots? Here are how many lives and how much money will be saved.

By Andy Larsen | October 15, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Valerie Mitchell administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Teresa Pacheco at Midvale Elementary School, on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. State data shows nearly 29,000 people received a coronavirus vaccine in Utah in the last week, following the release of new bivalent boosters.

Utah COVID-19 vaccinations skyrocketed after new booster release, state reports

By Paighten Harkins | September 15, 2022, 9:50 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A registered nurse and a clinical assistant get nasal swabs and information from a family of four at the Nomi Health COVID-19 testing site in the parking lot of Amazon on Friday, June 10, 2022 in Salt Lake City.

Utah COVID-19 case counts fall as state reports 8 new deaths

By Paighten Harkins | September 8, 2022, 9:01 p.m.

(Pfizer via AP) This August 2022 photo provided by Pfizer shows vials of the company's updated COVID-19 vaccine during production in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Doses began arriving in Utah shortly after U.S. regulators last week authorized the updated boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain.

How to get the new COVID-19 booster in Utah — and whether or not you should get it now

By Kolbie Peterson | September 7, 2022, 3:05 p.m.

(Pfizer via AP) This August 2022 photo provided by Pfizer shows vials of the company's updated COVID-19 vaccine during production in Kalamazoo, Mich. U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives.

Explainer: Should you get a new COVID booster? If so, when?

By Lauran Neergaard | The Associated Press | September 4, 2022, 11:45 a.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A registered nurse and a clinical assistant get nasal swabs and information from a family of four at a Nomi Health COVID-19 testing site on Friday, June 10, 2022 in Salt Lake City.

Omicron boosters headed to Utah as state reports 13 COVID-19 deaths, including child

By Paighten Harkins | September 2, 2022, 3:59 p.m.

(Pfizer via AP) This August 2022 photo provided by Pfizer shows vials of the company's updated COVID-19 vaccine during production in Kalamazoo, Mich. U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives.

US clears updated COVID boosters targeting newest variants

By Lauran Neergaard | The Associated Press | August 31, 2022, 4:10 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A registered nurse and a clinical assistant get nasal swabs and information from a family of four at the Nomi Health COVID-19 testing site in the parking lot of Amazon on Friday, June 10, 2022 in Salt Lake City.

Utah reports 15 new COVID-19 deaths as case counts, hospitalizations dip

By Paighten Harkins | August 25, 2022, 11:03 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Nomi Health COVID-19 testing site in the parking lot of Amazon Friday, June 10, 2022 in Salt Lake City. Thirteen more Utahns died of COVID-19 in the past week as case counts and hospitalizations throughout the state declined.

Utah COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations decline as state reports 13 deaths

By Paighten Harkins | August 18, 2022, 9:13 p.m.