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Park City High School and Treasure Mountain Junior High School were slated to move to remote learning starting Wednesday after COVID-19 case numbers spiked following students’ return from winter break. shows that the high school had 16 active cases of COVID-19 while Treasure Mountain had six. State and federal guidelines recommend shutting a school that has 15 or more active cases.
Superintendent Jill Gildea indicated in a message announcing the move that in-person learning would resume at both schools no later than Monday, Jan. 25. The schools have a combined population of more than 2,000 students.
Gildea said that once in-person learning returns, the district will test every student and staff member at those schools at least once every two weeks, a program known as “test to stay.”
Gov. Cox is pushing local health departments to vaccinate as quickly as possible and use all of the doses they have each week. Local officials say they have the capacity to deliver three times as many vaccines as they are receiving.
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It’s a common sight for those lucky enough to get a spot on the hill at Park City area ski resorts: people in lift lines without masks, or with a nose hanging out, often standing within 6 feet of each other.
Skiing and snowboarding can offer a brief reprieve from the pandemic, an outdoor activity that feels different and safer than many aspects of everyday life.
But officials say the coronavirus can still spread even in the most beautiful settings, and the same mask-wearing and social distancing rules remain in effect at resorts as everywhere else: Guests must wear a mask over their nose and mouth and maintain 6 feet of distance from people who live in different households.
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The Summit County Health Department is asking residents to enter their contact information into an online database that officials will use to contact people when it’s time for them to be vaccinated, part of the county’s unprecedented effort to administer tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect the community from COVID-19.
“The list will be used to notify individuals when vaccine registration opens,” spokesperson Derek Siddoway wrote in an email to The Park Record. “… Our goal is to make the vaccine available and accessible to any resident who wishes to receive it in the coming months.”
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During the recent surge of Covid-19 cases, there have been questions, or complaints, about how local medical and health officials are handling the virus.
Summit County Health Director Rich Bullough answered some of those in his recent visit to KPCW.
There have been some mixed reports about the ability of local citizens to get Covid testing from Intermountain Health Care. At Monday’s meeting of the County Health Board, some of the Board members said there have been instances where locals have had contact with infected individuals. But they were told by IHC that to be tested, they had to be sick, or show symptoms.