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Despair gives way to hope as San Juan leads Utah in vaccinations
Zak Podmore
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(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Brenda Vijil, a Diné medical assistant at Utah Navajo Health System s Monument Valley Clinic, records an incoming patient s personal information before admittance into the triage unit to take vitals and administer a coronavirus test. Aug. 24, 2020.
Bluff • For much of the past year, when community leaders in San Juan County opened biweekly coronavirus update emails from the region’s health department, they were prepared for grim news.
New cases of the coronavirus were identified among San Juan’s 15,300 residents almost every day for 11 months as outbreaks swept through small Navajo Nation communities, a nursing home in Blanding and the county’s larger cities, often repeatedly. The county, which has Utah’s highest poverty rate, leads the state for per capita coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. And ....

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