COVID-19 vaccine trials for kids are critical for Utah â its young population canât hit herd immunity without them
Hereâs how one Utah family decided to join a clinical trial to test the coronavirus vaccine for children.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) l-r The Sweeten children Emily, 5, Kaden, 10 and Jackson, 8, laughing with their mother Tristen, will participate in Moderna s upcoming clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine, to determine their safety and efficacy for children as young as 6 months.
Layton ⢠Jackson Sweeten wants to be the first kid in Utah to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
âWeâre hoping to be one, two and three for the vaccine trial,â 8-year-old Jackson said of himself and his siblings. âIâll be one â â
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Activist, conservationist and acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams says that she could only make sense of this past year by returning to her gift: putting words to the page. She’s been writing through the pandemic, and looking for beauty where there often is none to be found. In her quest to use language and stories to alleviate a broken heart, she believes that a grief shared is a grief endured.
For the last year, she has hunkered down amongst the natural beauty of the red desert mountains in Castle Valley, Utah, a landscape she describes as both eroding and evolving. There s no shortage of issues close to her heart. The land, climate, and conservation are important to her, and so are her politics. These days, bigger questions are on her
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About $10 million Utah could have spent to help people pay rent or business owners keep their companies afloat was used to pay for TestUtah coronavirus tests that insurance and other sources likely
would have covered, an analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune shows.
Touting its approach as a disruptor that streamlines access to health care, Nomi Health does not ask test seekers whether they have insurance. It instead bills only the state of Utah, under contracts for its work at TestUtah sites.
From KJZZ.com Utah. COVID-19 vaccine side effects & deaths: The lack of information on how, where to report With so many people getting the same vaccines all at once, most people are hearing post vaccine experiences varying from mild, to.
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