COVID-19 s death toll hit 5 million worldwide, a milestone that one Utah woman believes will be largely ignored by those eager to put the pandemic behind them.
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SALT LAKE CITY Maybe with the exception of their wildest dreams, no one associated with the Utah Avalanche s Under-13 boys soccer club woke up last week thinking they d return from a trip to North Carolina with a national championship in tow.
Life is sometimes much better than dreams, though.
The Sandy-based soccer club that launched a boys program to join its highly successful all-girls program just seven years ago finished off a 10-0 record with a win over San Diego SC 3-0 Friday afternoon in Greensboro, North Carolina, to claim the first national title in club history.
Surprised? No one more than the players and coaches.
Theo Harvey gets tested for COVID-19 outside of the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Beginning Dec. 28, Salt Lake County will offer rapid COVID-19 tests at the center, 2050 W. 3100 South, Monday through Saturday,10 a.m. to 3 p.m. No testing will be conducted Dec. 31 through Jan. 2, and registration is required at SaltLakeHealth.org.
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Kortnie Aldous, who lost her father last May after both her parents were hospitalized with COVID-19, struggles to understand why some of her fellow Utahns still have little or no worry about catching the deadly virus.
“It honestly makes me sick to my stomach,” the Holladay resident said of a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll that found 31% of Utahns are very concerned about contracting COVID-19 and 33% are somewhat concerned, but 18% are not very concerned, and 17% are not at all concerned.