Coronavirus updates: 473 new cases Sunday in Utah

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Sunday, 09:09 pm

‘It’s pretty overwhelming’: Limited help available for Utahns behind on rent

Jasmine Stanley checks her bank account several times a day to see if an unexpected payment has shown up. Any extra cash will help.She and her boyfriend are short on August rent after they got the coronavirus last week and couldn’t work.If the Midvale couple had fallen sick earlier, moratoriums on pandemic-related evictions would have bought them more time to catch up. But a statewide freeze ended in May, and protection for Stanley and other renters in buildings with federally backed mortgages ran out last week.“It’s pretty overwhelming. It causes a lot of anxiety,” said Stanley, 22, who estimates she will fall hundreds of dollars short of her roughly $900 rent. “We had one of my friends take our coins to Coinstar to see how much money we could get. She got about $50, so that was cool, but still not enough.”— Annie Knox, KSL

Sunday, 09:08 pm

Debate begins for who's first in line for COVID-19 vaccine

Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it’s a vexing decision.“Not everybody’s going to like the answer,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, recently told one of the advisory groups the government asked to help decide. “There will be many people who feel that they should have been at the top of the list.”Traditionally, first in line for a scarce vaccine are health workers and the people most vulnerable to the targeted infection.But Collins tossed new ideas into the mix: Consider geography and give priority to people where an outbreak is hitting hardest.And don’t forget volunteers in the final stage of vaccine testing who get dummy shots, the comparison group needed to tell if the real shots truly work.— Associated Press

Sunday, 12:55 pm

473 new cases, 1 death Sunday in Utah

The Utah Department of Health Sunday is reporting 473 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one death from the disease statewide.That brings Utah up to 41,175 total confirmed cases and 311 deaths since the pandemic began.The department is reporting the results of 3,456 new tests over Saturday's numbers. Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox expressed concern Saturday that testing demand has decreased recently, though he said other metrics are holding strong."We always see lower testing numbers following a holiday weekend," he wrote. " ... Testing sites are simply reporting less demand. It is not yet clear if this is just a result of fewer cases (good!), public fatigue (not good), or something else."— Graham Dudley, KSL.com

Sunday, 12:02 pm

Birx warns US is 'in a new phase' of coronavirus pandemic

Dr. Deborah Birx on Sunday said the US is in a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, saying that the deadly virus is more widespread than when it first took hold in the US earlier this year."What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It's into the rural as equal urban areas," Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."Birx stressed that Americans need to follow health recommendations, including wearing a mask and practicing social distancing."To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus," Birx said. "If you're in multi-generational households, and there's an outbreak in your rural area or in your city, you need to really consider wearing a mask at home, assuming that you're positive, if you have individuals in your households with comorbidities."— CNN

Saturday, 10:49 pm

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Coronavirus updates: 473 new cases Sunday in Utah

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