As the Delta variant drives a growing number COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in Utah, particularly among young adults and children, officials are
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The COVID-19 virus has disrupted millions of lives across Utah, but some state legislators are proposing a law that would allow them to determine when the pandemic is over.
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Utah legislators are working on a bill that would allow them to decide when the COVID-19 pandemic is officially over - or at least, what the state needs to do when the novel coronavirus is no longer a crisis.
House members approved House Bill 294 - the so-called Endgame Bill - along party lines this week after a different measure failed that would have immediately ended the state s mask mandate.
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Many Utahns have lost their health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic, but subsidized coverage is now available through the Affordable Care Act.
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You may know it as Obamacare.
But nowadays, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has a new moniker, Bidencare, because President Joe Biden ordered the Health Insurance Marketplace reopened through May 15 to help Utahns and others who lost health insurance during the COVID-19 crisis get a subsidized plan.
The Biden administration is putting $50 million into marketing and advertising the special enrollment period to guide qualified Utahns through the process of getting covered.
Stacy Stanford, health policy analyst for the Utah Health Policy Project and the Take Care Utah Network, said health advocates have been pushing for the marketplace to reopen since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Utah lawmakers will see a slew of bills this session addressing police behavior, including one that would prevent officers from using additional force against someone who s been subdued.
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Police reform will be a top priority when the Utah Legislature opens next Tuesday, and groups are pressing lawmakers to pass more than 60 expected bills.
Some key areas of focus include police accountability, use of force and police misconduct.
Molly Davis, policy analyst for the Libertas Institute, said after a summer of Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the state, lawmakers feel a sense of urgency for change.
She added many of the bills, some of which are likely to be combined, aren t public yet, and she predicted one that s likely to pass would ban no-knock warrants, a tactic that led to Breonna Taylor s death in Kentucky.