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Campus

New COVID-19 monovalent vaccine released, BYU faculty reflect on pandemic

By Belle Lewis
October 13, 2023 12:00 AM
As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes endemic, BYU professors look back at the COVID-19 response and the future of the disease.
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Healthy Living

COVID-19 Update: Utah encourages vaccinations, precautions against new variant

By Mabel Galvez Laparra
September 25, 2023 12:00 AM
As fall in Utah begins, so does a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
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Healthy Living

Flu season more severe this year, especially for infants

By Megan Brugger
November 08, 2022 12:00 AM
The number of flu hospitalizations in the U.S. this year are higher than usual, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Campus News

BYU encourages students to get vaccinated

By Jeff Salcedo
July 07, 2021 12:00 AM
BYU is encouraging students to get vaccinated before fall semester and will be implementing 'vaccine-appreciation rewards' to students who show their immunization card.
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Campus News

Will BYU return to normalcy this Fall?

By Kenzie Holbrook
March 25, 2021 12:00 AM
The COVID-19 pandemic will have been around for about a year and a half when Fall Semester rolls around, but will that be enough time to return to normal? The answer right now is undetermined.
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Religion

LDS Charities gives $20 million to UNICEF'S COVID-19 response

By Maddie Selcho
March 01, 2021 12:00 AM
Latter-day Saint Charities announced its support of and partnership with UNICEF's COVID-19 response to get vaccines to 196 countries by the end of 2021.
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Business

Some stores pay employees to receive COVID-19 vaccine

By Maddie Selcho
February 12, 2021 12:00 AM
Trader Joe's, Dollar General and other companies are incentivizing their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine with a cash bonus.
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Healthy Living

BYU students could get COVID-19 vaccine as early as March

By Maddie Selcho
January 18, 2021 12:00 AM
Experts project BYU students could begin getting the COVID-19 vaccine sometime in the next few months.
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Nation

New York ends religious exemption to vaccine mandates

By Associated Press
June 17, 2019 12:00 AM
A woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., north of New York City. On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, federal health officials updated the U.S. measles case count, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Healthy Living

Thousands of young US children get no vaccines, survey finds

By Associated Press
October 16, 2018 12:00 AM
This 1981 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows varicella-zoster virions from a patient with chickenpox. On Thursday, Oct. 11, the CDC says a small but growing proportion of U.S. toddlers have not been vaccinated against any disease. (Dr. Erskine Palmer/CDC via AP)
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Local

HB221: Immunization bill held in House

By Kayla Goodson
March 11, 2016 12:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY— A controversial bill that would amend children's immunization requirements failed to pass through the Legislature after 10 substitutions.
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Healthy Living

Utah vaccination exemption rates climbing to top-10 levels

By Morgan Allred
December 03, 2015 12:00 AM
Utah's vaccination exemption rate for kindergarteners is high enough to put it in the top 10 states. This year Utah is at a 4.3 percent exemption rate, putting Utahns close to falling below the national goal of having 95% of all kindergarteners vaccinated.
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Healthy Living

Meningitis vaccine required for 7th graders

By Hannah Maines
May 11, 2015 12:00 AM
Frankie MIlley, Founder and National Executive Director of Meningitis Angles, was the keynote speaker at an event hosted by Voices for Utah Children. Milley is a supporter of the new rulling that every seventh grade student in Utah should be vaccinated against meningitis. (Hannah Maines)
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Local

Immunization season for students

July 09, 2012 12:00 AM
With the start of elementary, junior high and high schools just around the corner, the Utah County Health Department is encouraging parents to get their students' immunized now.
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