Utah Department of Health

The latest Utah news on Friday evening, December 18, 2020.

Teachers and school staff have been bumped up on Utah’s priority list to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Starting Friday, some Utahns will be asked to complete contact tracing online rather than over the phone.

If you test positive for COVID-19, health officials usually call people who you came into contact with and let them know. But that process, known as contact tracing, is changing around Utah as new cases continue to number in the thousands each day.

The latest Utah news on Wednesday evening, November 18, 2020.

Utah health officials say five hospitals in the state could start vaccinating workers for COVID-19 by the second week of December. But the general public with low risk jobs shouldn’t expect a vaccine until next summer.

Schools across Utah are facing many challenges in trying to stay open for students, including collecting accurate and up to date information on coronavirus case counts. Much of the burden of contact tracing falls on school staff, who are overwhelmed and run into barriers from parents hesitant to test their kids and relay the results.

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