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This Innovative Kauai Medical Facility Is Struggling To Survive
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PRINCEVILLE, Kauai Dorothy Tse and her husband were trying to change a shower head in their new house here one day in late November when he felt a pain in his back and what he called “malaise.”
She and her husband had recently bought the house and intended to divide their time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Kauai. They were so new to the island that they didn’t even know the names of any of Kauai’s three hospitals.
Among hospitals in Utah that specialize in COVID-19 places like University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City and Intermountain Medical Center in Murray there is normally a total of 453 intensive care unit beds available for patients. Now, the 453 ICU beds at those referral centers are full and then some.
SALT LAKE CITY Jury trials are slowly starting back up in Utah after some defendants have waited nearly a year during the pandemic for their day in court.
State courts officials announced Friday that an initial trial will be held in Salt Lake City on Jan. 25, followed by another in Duchesne on Feb. 10. And they say they re working with health experts to make the courthouses as safe as possible. We re quite excited about this. We ve had a lot of jury trials that have been languishing and it s absolutely killing us, said 3rd District Presiding Judge Mark Kouris. We re getting the train back on the tracks, if you will.
Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY Jury trials are slowly starting back up in Utah after some defendants have waited nearly a year during the pandemic for their day in court.
State courts officials announced Friday that an initial trial will be held in Salt Lake City on Jan. 25, followed by another in Duchesne on Feb. 10. And they say they’re working with health experts to make the courthouses as safe as possible.
“We’re quite excited about this. We’ve had a lot of jury trials that have been languishing and it’s absolutely killing us,” said 3rd District Presiding Judge Mark Kouris. “We’re getting the train back on the tracks, if you will.”