Lawyers for Salt Lake County are asking a federal judge to reject a request for a restraining order blocking laws that severely limit mask requirements in schools.
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Mississippi has surpassed New Jersey as the state with the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said that the numbers of new cases continue to be “far more than we’d like to see,” and that more deaths will follow.
Utahns are split over state lawmakers limiting the power of local authorities to enact mask mandates to fight the spread of COVID-19. But a majority believe public health departments, not elected officials, should make those decisions, according to a new Deseret News/University of Utah Hinckley Institute of Politics.