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Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
When’s the last time 400,000 people got together in Utah?
After being forced to cancel most of its festivities last year, America’s Freedom Festival is back and anticipating to draw over 400,000 guests to the various Fourth of July events this weekend, including filling more than 30,000 seats in LaVell Edwards Stadium.
The Stadium of Fire will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Saturday, bringing in Grammy-winning country musician Lee Greenwood, motorcycle stunt team Nitro Circus, 500-voice Millennial Choir and country singer Collin Raye. The event will culminate in the USA’s largest stadium fireworks show.
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June 4, 2021
Plummeting vaccination rates have turned what officials hoped would be the “last mile” of the coronavirus immunization campaign into a marathon, threatening President Joe Biden’s goal of getting shots to at least 70% of adults by July 4.
The United States is averaging fewer than 1 million shots per day, a decline of more than two-thirds from the peak of 3.4 million in April, according to The Washington Post’s seven-day analysis, even though all adults and children over age 12 are now eligible.
Small armies of health workers and volunteers often outnumber the people showing up to get shots at clinics around the country, from a drive-through site in Chattanooga, Tenn., to a gymnasium in Provo, Utah, or a park in Raleigh, N.C.