Also: Sen. Mitt Romney convenes hearing that stresses wildfires are a 'very wicked' problem for the country.
Good morning! Here are today’s temperatures: Logan: 28 - 50° ☀️ ⚠️ Salt Lake City: 33 - 56° ⛅ ⚠️ St. George: 44 - 58° 🌦️ | 60% 💧 ⚠️ High Wind Warning "Gwyneth Goes Skiing" is coming to Utah! The musical will be showing in the Egyptian Theatre in Park City May 16-26. As Meg Walter describes the play, it "is the very silly, very entertaining play about Paltrow’s collision with retired optometrist Terry Sanderson at the Deer Valley ski resort. Their encounter resulted in a trial in Park City that mesmerized the world." Find out how to get your tickets. Also on our mind: FAFSA debacle leaves college students in financial limbo, Congress enters the debate about whether student athletes can unionize and high winds could bring power outages across parts of Utah. |
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| COVID pandemic turned 4 this week. What did we learn? |
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The fourth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic this week is a reminder that we learned a lot about disease spread and building vaccines fast, about lost jobs and opportunities, gained insights and innovations, social isolation, the nuclear family and how to put one foot in front of another on a very unfamiliar path. Worldometers reports the U.S. has experienced 111,638,262 confirmed cases of COVID-19, though it’s clearly a major undercount. There have been 1,217,245 U.S. COVID-19-related deaths as of March 13, 2024. Health care delivery changed in many ways due to the pandemic, hospitalist Dr. Russell Vinik, chief medical operations officer at University of Utah Healthcare and associate professor of medicine at the U., told Deseret News. Telehealth is a big one. “During the early day in the pandemic, those telehealth systems really weren’t built out to be able to handle it. But we did the best we could so we could take care of patients virtually. What we saw was a very dramatic increase,” he said, noting at least half of patient appointments were telehealth. |
Read more about how COVID-19 changed the world. |
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| The deadliest wildfire in this country in a century killed at least 100 people in Maui last year, destroying the coastal tourist town of Lahaina, and, as of early this year, 5,400 people remain displaced. “This is a national priority. It is tragic that we continue to have wildfires of the nature we have,” said Sen. Mitt Romney Thursday during a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing convened by Romney. “Some have become conflagrations. There’s been massive loss of life. And this is a problem from Hawaii to Canada to the southern border — across the country. And more and more states are being affected by wildfires. It’s not just a few states of the American West as we sometimes think is the case. It is a national concern.” Read more about what Romney said. More in Politics: Utah GOP releases final presidential poll results (Deseret News) Utah attorney general candidate not yet admitted to the state’s bar, is in process (Deseret News) Utah Women Run annual training is this Saturday (Deseret News) Stuart Adams: How Utah is looking 100 years ahead (Deseret News) |
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