(Cedar City, UT) — Hospitals in Cedar City and St. George are ending their nearly three-year-long mask requirement. Along with all other units of Intermountain Health, Cedar City Hospital and St. George Regional Hospital will no longer require people to wear masks, beginning one week from today, March 15th. Signs […]
(St. George, UT) — Intermountain Health is dropping its mask requirement for patients and visitors. Utah’s largest healthcare system announced this week that masks will be optional, starting March 15th. Intermountain officials said they made the decision to drop the mask requirement based on current health data and in collaboration […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s attorney general is joining the fight against a federal mask mandate for travelers. AG Sean Reyes’ office says President Biden’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention interstate travel mask mandate exceeds its authority. Reyes’ office also says the requirement infringes on each state’s ability […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah House could take up a Senate resolution to overturn mask mandates in Salt Lake and Summit counties as soon as today. KUTV reports that the joint resolution now has a sponsor in the House. Salt Lake County Representative Candice Pierucci has attached her […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers are moving quickly to overturn mask mandates currently in force in two Utah counties. State senators voted 22-5 in favor of a resolution that would knock down the mask orders in place in Salt Lake and Summit counties. The five no votes came […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Legislature may introduce bills to prevent local mask mandates. Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson said yesterday that several lawmakers are considering bills in the upcoming session that would stop county governments from implementing mask mandates. The legislature already has the power to review […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP Gov. Spencer Cox exempted from a mask mandate the Utah Capitol and other state facilities Monday as conservative lawmakers prepared to begin meeting for the year, but the Salt Lake County mayor is pushing back. Democratic Mayor Jenny Wilson says Cox doesn’t have the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican leaders in Salt Lake County won’t overturn a mask mandate implemented during an omicron variant surge of the coronavirus. Council chair Laurie Stringham said Sunday that testing lines are miles long, cases are up among students and crews are struggling to staff fire and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Utah counties have issued indoor mask mandates amid a record-setting surge of coronavirus cases that has left long testing lines, shortages of monoclonal antibody treatments and strained hospital staff. Salt Lake County health officials made the order Friday, a day after Summit county. Both […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is joining a lawsuit with 23 other states against the Biden administration’s mask and vaccine mandate for Head Start programs. Reyes says the mandate will result in job loss for teachers against the COVID-19 vaccine and says “forcing masks on […]
