Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – Weber State University students in the performing arts department have experienced a drastically different year while continuing their studies during the pandemic. According to the CDC, singing and other activities commonly found in the performing arts can be super-spreaders of the COVID-19 virus, which has made it difficult for performances to be live. Due to this and other COVID-19 factors, the WSU Department of Performing Arts has turned toward virtual mediums to broadcast and record its events, and students have had to adapt as classes move online. “This year has shown lots of different changes,” Macey Quigley,…

OGDEN, Utah – Rufino Rodriguez worked 37 years saving lives as a respiratory therapist at Provo’s Utah Valley Hospital, where he “was the one who would fight for all the babies” in the newborn intensive care unit, his son said. On Saturday, as the colleagues who worked to keep him alive paid tribute to him, Rodriguez died at Utah Valley Hospital from complications of COVID-19. He was 65. Rodriguez joins a growing list of Utahns who have died from COVID-19. As of Monday, the Utah Department of Health reported that the state’s death toll from the pandemic had reached 1,597,…