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Hesitancy about vaccines may keep Utah from reaching herd immunity

Hesitancy about vaccines may keep Utah from reaching herd immunity
Lisa Riley Roche
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Health care worker Qing Chong prepares COVID-19 vaccines for a pop-up vaccination event at Reams in Magna on Monday, May 3, 2021. The Salt Lake County Health Department is doing vaccination pop-up events with its mobile health center.
Utah may be running out of people who are ready to get the COVID-19 shots even though less than a third of the state is fully vaccinated against the deadly virus.
A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll found that 7% of registered voters in Utah remain in a wait-and-see mode about the vaccine, the same number as a month ago, Another 10% say they’re in no particular rush, down slightly. ....

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More than 900,000 people died of COVID-19 in the U.S., a new study suggests. That's almost double the official count

More than 900,000 people died of COVID-19 in the U.S., a new study suggests. That’s almost double the official count
Herb Scribner
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Utahns walk up to get a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination event at Reams in Magna on Monday, May 3, 2021. University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation said in a new analysis that 900,000 people may have died because of COVID-19.
That’s almost 57% higher than the official count, which is at 580,000 or so.
But it’s not just the United States. According to NPR, the study found that the worldwide death count from COVID-19 is closer to 7 million instead of the reported 3.24 million. ....

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