SALT LAKE CITY — More than half of Utahns now see life returning to normal no later than this fall after more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions, according to results released Tuesday from a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll, a much more optimistic outlook than earlier this year.
And once the pandemic is behind them, most Utahns say they're done wearing masks even to prevent the transmission of other diseases. Just 36% said they were very or somewhat likely to wear a mask post-pandemic, while 61% are not very or not at all likely to don a face covering again.