Deseret News
- It was all hands on deck for the 2020 earthquake – A look back on that day through the eyes of a journalist.
- Asian Americans fighting two viruses — COVID-19 and racism – Asian American members of Congress, scholars and advocates, including actor Daniel Dae Kim, who testified Thursday about the rise in discrimination against Asian Americans before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
- Moroni’s trumpet fell one year ago. Where is the statue now and what’s happened since? – He’s in a local storage facility until 2024.
- Now all Utahns are eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting Wednesday – Governor says public health departments wanted date moved from April 1 because vaccine appointments were going unfilled in some counties.
- Water restrictions could come early with 90% of Utah in ‘extreme drought,’ Cox warns – Cox said Utahns must focus on conservation in a “very big way. We have to do better.”
Salt Lake Tribune
- Will counties be allowed to enact mask mandates after April 10? It depends. – All pandemic public health orders will not end in Utah until caseload, ICU and vaccine benchmarks are met.
- Even when Utah lifts mandate, you’ll still need a mask to shop at grocery stores – Harmons, Smith’s and other retailers want employees to get vaccinations before eliminating face coverings for customers.
- TestUtah relief funds, inland port ‘bank’ and widening vaccine pool on this week’s ‘Behind the Headlines’ – Join Salt Lake Tribune journalists on KCPW’s new roundup this morning at 9.
- Why does Mitt Romney want to send checks to parents each month? To encourage them to have more kids. – The Utah Republican also argues payments starting when a woman is pregnant will help curb abortions.
- Sean Reyes, other AGs press Biden over restrictions in stimulus plan – 21 Republican attorneys general pressed the Biden administration Tuesday to clarify a provision in the $1.9 trillion economic aid package, warning that its restrictions on state efforts to cut taxes could be “the greatest attempted invasion of state sovereignty by Congress in the history of our Republic.”
Other
- Salt Lake County sheriff creates ‘ICE dashboard’ to show local immigration enforcement stats (KSL) – Between 2016 and 2020, ICE issued 3,269 detainers on jailed individuals in Salt Lake County. Making the dashboard public is a “monumental” move towards transparency.
- Utah national parks prepare for return of Spring Break crowds (FOX 13) – Though state restrictions are slowly lifting, Garthwait reminds visitors they are still on Federal lands with Federal restrictions and masks are still required of the anticipated record-breaking crowds.
- $23 million in earthquake repairs still needed for two Salt Lake City landmarks (FOX 13) – The Salt Lake City and County Building needs about $3 million for the repairs and the Rio Grande building needs about $20 million.
COVID Corner
- No deaths in Utah caused by COVID-19 vaccine, state’s medical examiner verifies (Salt Lake Tribune) – The ME’s office also called on “members of the media to wait for all the facts to be known prior to reporting information that could lead to undue diminished confidence in these life-saving vaccines.”
- US coronavirus vaccine rollout becomes ‘less messy’ (CNN) – It’s better in a lot of ways, including vaccine supply, reaching underserved populations, calming conspiracy fears and increasing vaccinators.
- AstraZeneca: Germany, other European countries to resume use of vaccine (DW) – Germany, France and several other European countries have decided to lift suspensions on the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine following safety guidance from the European Medicines Agency.
- Paris to enter four-week lockdown as France faces third Covid wave (The Guardian) – New restrictions for capital and northern parts of country from Friday as virulent variants spread.
- Ford Field to distribute more than 300K doses of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson vaccines (Detroit News) – The COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic is set to open Wednesday.
- Does the COVID-19 vaccine really stop ‘long-COVID’? (Deseret News) – Scientists can’t confirm whether this is true but they’ve begun additional research into the matter to figure out if it is true.
- Older people can get COVID-19 twice … if they don’t get the vaccine (Deseret News) – Two British researchers said natural immunity isn’t a good strategy for keeping the world safe from the coronavirus.
- COVID-19 survivors might only have immunity for 6 months (Deseret News) – The Lancet just published a study that found that reinfection can happen for individuals who naturally became infected with the coronavirus.
