There are still many places in Utah where masks must be worn despite the statewide mandate ending Saturday, Gov. Spencer Cox and public health officials continue to urge Utahns to mask up as case counts drop Monday to 185 with no new deaths from COVID-19.
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Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson poses for a photo in her office at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 19, 2021. Henderson understands firsthand the need to confront the ongoing effects of COVID-19. Since being hospitalized for the deadly virus last August, she has experienced lingering respiratory issues as well as developing agonizing back problems that required multiple surgeries.
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As most Utahns look forward to COVID-19 no longer dominating their daily lives, those who’ve had the deadly virus and continue to struggle with debilitating and difficult-to-treat long-term symptoms are hoping they won’t be forgotten.
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Intermountain Healthcare is working on a transformative model for the future of healthcare called population health that focuses on keeping people in communities healthy and pre-emptively addressing cause of illnesses, rather than just treating people when they are sick.
As an important additional step, Intermountain is partnering with the University of Utah to jointly develop a new medical educational program the first of its kind in the United States to be used to train the next generation of physicians in population health, which focuses on keeping people and communities healthy and addresses factors that can lead to illness and injury in an effort to prevent those from occurring.