Browsing: COVID-19

OGDEN, Utah – The impacts of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine shortage are being felt in Utah. On Monday, the health department of the state’s most populous county told ABC4 that Salt Lake County has administered 27,947 doses, saying, “it’s below what we are capable of, but all the vaccine doses we had.” When asked why the county wasn’t receiving the doses it needs to administer the vaccine, the reply was “because there’s a national shortage of the vaccine.” Across the state, 229,575 vaccines have been administered. In the wake of reports the state is falling behind on its vaccine rollout,…

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,…