Vaccines administered in Tooele County ♦
The Tooele County Health Department vaccinated some of their employees Tuesday. Vaccinations for members of the community will be available soon.
Currently, Tooele County has had 4,359 positive cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Utah Department of Health.
There have also been 123 Tooele County residents hospitalized since the start of the pandemic and 12 deaths.
According to Amy Bate, public information officer for the Tooele County Health Department, there is no way to know how many individuals are currently receiving hospital care for the virus.
On Dec. 24, Tooele County had 3,790 cases of the virus since the beginning of the pandemic, with 123 hospitalizations and 12 deaths, according to a report from the Tooele County Health Department released on Thursday.
It was the morning of Christmas Eve when Transcript Bulletin associate publisher Clayton Dunn, controller Bruce Dunn and editor Tim Gillie pulled up to Gibb’s family home in Tooele City.
After ringing the doorbell, the door opened and they were met in the front yard of the home by Jared Gibbs, 44, his son, Jaceton and daughter, Dreya, both 17.
The oldest son, Cayden, 20, who has muscular dystrophy, had a rough night and was still asleep inside, Jared said.
Christmas is normally a joyous season, but for the Gibbs family Christmas this year was a difficult time.
Trisha Gibbs, 41, wife and mother, passed away 18 days earlier in a hospital ICU from COVID-19. She had been in the hospital for two weeks with family members unable to visit her.
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The Tooele Transcript Benefit Fund is still accepting donations to help the Gibbs family. The Gibbs lost their mother, Trisha, to COVID-19 on Dec. 6. Trisha was the primary caregiver for her son, Cayden, 20. Cayden is in a wheelchair due to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive muscle-wasting disease. Jared, the father, works as a maintenance supervisor in Salt Lake City. The family also has two 17-year old twins, Dreya and Jaceton.
The Transcript Bulletin Benefit Fund is a registered not-for-profit organization which has been helping Tooele families and individuals every Christmas since 1977. All received proceeds are presented to the individual or family on or before Christmas. Donations for this year’s benefit fund can be mailed to: Transcript Bulletin Christmas Benefit Fund, P.O. Box 390, Tooele, Utah 84074. They can also be dropped off at the Transcript Bulletin’s office at 58 N. Main Street, south of Tooele City Hall.
“It was difficult,” said her daughter, Dreya Gibbs. “Because of COVID we couldn’t even visit her.”
Trisha Gibbs left behind her family; husband, Jared, 42, son Caden, 20, and two 17-year old twins daughter Dreya and son Jaceton.
The Transcript Bulletin Benefit Fund selected the Gibbs family of Tooele as the 2020 recipient of the fund, to raise funds and other donations to help the Gibbs family with some of their burdens as they approach Christmas and the New Year without Trisha.
The family will need help with the unexpected medical and funeral expenses. And Jared, the single income earner for the family is faced with figuring how to provide for Caden’s medical needs and care.