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In January, there were 42 diagnosed COVID-19 cases among Summit County residents aged 70 or older, according to county data. In March, that number was zero.
Summit County officials called that statistic “remarkable” and said it shows that vaccines are working.
Summit County Health Director Rich Bullough presented data to the Board of Health Monday night that painted an optimistic picture of the local coronavirus situation
, with high testing numbers, low positivity rates, high vaccine uptake and few new cases.
But the assessment came with a new warning about virus variants that appear to be affecting the youngest members of the community.
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Summit County Manager Tom Fisher, who is also a brigadier general in the Utah National Guard, paused during one of the more unusual meetings he’d convened in his time in the top post of the county’s government.
It was March 14, 2020.
Looking around the conference room, Fisher saw top officials from Summit County and Park City, elected officials and department heads in the same room working on the same problem.
In an interview nearly a year later recalling the early days of the pandemic that has changed so many aspects of daily life, Fisher drew on his military experience to describe his thinking at that moment.
Inside Park City High School, officials tested 900 students on Monday, while in the parking lot outside, TestUtah staffers ran a free community testing clinic. The “Test to Stay” program aims to keep schools open even as the district weathers the largest outbreak yet.
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Park City’s secondary students returned to school on Monday after nearly two weeks of remote learning, but as per usual during the pandemic, it was far from a typical school day.
Throughout the morning, the district summoned 900 students from Treasure Mountain Junior High School and Park City High School to the high school gym for rapid COVID-19 antigen tests on the first day of what officials call the “Test to Stay” program.