Page 50 - Patrick Carroll News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A pet-loving family heads to the White House after four-year poochless hiatus Maura Judkis, The Washington Post Jan. 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail In 2009, then-Vice President Joe Biden made a visit to the Syracuse, N.Y., elementary school where his late first wife, Neilia, once taught. Amid a crowd of enthusiastic fifth-graders, one had an important question for the vice president: Have you ever petted a dog? Biden grew animated, reported the local paper, the Post-Standard. "Have I ever petted a dog?" he said. "Oh, yeah! And guess what! I got one that lives with me! The smartest, coolest do...

"The First Hundred Days": Every newly elected president always talks about what they want to get done in their first hundred days in office. Whether the president shares political party affiliation...

ST. GEORGE — Utah Sen. Don Ipson can't think of anyone he knew that had been infected by COVID-19 during the summertime. That changed in the months between then and now. Ipson, R-St. George, said he now knows several people who have contracted it, been hospitalized, and even a few who have died from complications caused by it. Then, just weeks ago, he toured Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George, with some of his legislator colleagues and witnessed firsthand the issues the hospital staff has to deal with to match the needs of COVID-19 patients. The tour was eye-opening, he said. Refle...

Southern Utah leaders want smaller Christmas gatherings as hospitalizations spike Ashley Imlay © Kristin Murphy, Deseret News Theo Harvey gets tested for COVID-19 outside of the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Beginning Dec. 28, Salt Lake County will offer rapid COVID-19 tests at the center, 2050 W. 3100 South, Monday through Saturday,10 a.m. to 3 p.m. No testing will be conducted Dec. 31 through Jan. 2, and registration is required at SaltLakeHealth.org. SALT LAKE CITY — Southern Utah hospital officials and legislative leaders on Tuesday urg...

December 20, 2020 at 10:07 PM If you’re over 60, you may recall lining up in grade school to be required to take the polio vaccine on a cube of sugar. That vaccine, along with required changes in our community and nations, enabled us to eradicate a disease that had ravaged American youth for generations. Perhaps now we face a similar challenge. The legal precedent for mandatory vaccinations dates back to a 1905 Supreme Court case after a smallpox outbreak in Massachusetts. But as the U.S. reaches important clinical milestones in its vaccine development efforts, questions arise relating to d...