Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah — Non-hospital healthcare workers including dentists got the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine in Davis County Saturday as part of its 3rd or 4th drive-in inoculation site. Davis County has vaccinated more than 5,700 people with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Salt Lake County is around 20,000 vaccinations, and Utah County around 18,000. To put this into perspective 24,000 were said to have been vaccinated Wednesday. From Dec. 14th – Dec. 27th, 17,543 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine From Dec. 28th – Dec. 29th, 6,427 were given the vaccine…

UTAH – Inmates 70 and older at the Utah State Prison got their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday as part of a statewide effort to inoculate older Utahns. Meanwhile the Utah Department of Health reported 859 new cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths Monday, numbers that continue a downward trend in the seven-day average for new positives. Medical workers administered the Moderna vaccine to 79 inmates at the prison’s Draper site starting Monday and will continue through the week. The facility houses the state’s oldest and most ill, said Utah Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kaitlin Felsted. “We’re…