Photo Courtesy of Creative Learning Academy Staying open through the pandemic has meant child care provider Creative Learning Academy has had to work with children in smaller groups.
For all the challenges the pandemic has brought, Jessica Lloyd said it might ultimately be good for child care.
She runs Creative Learning Academy, an early childhood learning center with four locations throughout Salt Lake County. She said because kids were learning from home and parents were balancing work with watching them, there’s more attention now on the need for good care.
The challenge is, there just aren’t enough options especially for the youngest kids.
Live sign language translation is provided during state COVID-19 press conferences.
Renee and David Pavlus are both visually impaired. The Utah County couple, 66 and 70-years-old respectively, is used to relying on others, especially during the pandemic, for help. Getting vaccinated for COVID-19 was no exception.
Renee, who is fully blind, said she and her husband have had issues with using other medical websites in the past. So, when it came time to register for a vaccine, they didn’t even bother trying to sign up online.
“I didn t go on the website because I knew better,” Renee said. “I have been warned by several people who are also legally blind or blind like me that it was going to be very complicated.”
KUER The Kane County Commission is asking the state to exclude jail data from its transmission level designation.
Kane County has one of the highest COVID-19 two-week incident rates in Utah, but the county commission is asking the state not to designate it as a high transmission area.
In a letter to the governor’s office and Utah Department of Health, commissioners said a COVID-19 outbreak at the jail “skews” the data. They asked the state to review their designation without counting jail cases.
Richard Saunders, the executive director of UDOH, responded to the commissioners agreeing to only include county inmates. The letter states “county inmates are more likely to be released from jail and are more likely to remain in Kane County.”
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The Utah Navajo Health System ran a vaccination drive-through in Monument Valley on Feb. 11. The event was open to anyone over the age of 16.
The Navajo Nation announced it will begin lifting COVID-19 restrictions on March 15, due to a steep decline in cases across the reservation.
Navajo President Jonathan Nez explained the new measures in a Facebook video Wednesday night. He showed a chart of the falling positive COVID-19 cases on the reservation and explained that the reopening will be gradual.
“The thing that’s different about this time around is we have vaccination,” Nez said. “It pushes back against the virus’s spread in our communities.”
During a press conference Thursday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox addressed the upcoming end of the statewide mask mandate. He asked Utahns to be respectful of others including continuing to wear masks in businesses that require them.