The world doubtless wasn’t paying that a lot consideration on March 11, 2020, when the World Well being Group declared already-worrisome COVID-19 a world pandemic. However that coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, would quickly change world economies, enterprise practices and the way well being care techniques and even faculties operated. New and repurposed phrases within the U.S. would quickly turn out to be a part of on a regular basis language in coming months: “masking,” “social distancing,” “flatten the curve,” “quarantine” and “distant work.”COVID-19 would perpetually change particular person households, too, because the loss of life toll climbed into the hundreds of thousands worldwide.The fourth anniversary of that pandemic declaration this week is a reminder of the way it reshaped the world in profound methods. We higher perceive preparedness and resilience. We witnessed the very important position of science and analysis. We discovered extra appreciation for public well being and well being care staff. We discovered that psychological well being issues. We noticed the worth of expertise for distant work, training and social connection.We realized loads about illness unfold and constructing vaccines quick, about misplaced jobs and alternatives. We additionally gained perception into social isolation, the nuclear household and the way to put one foot in entrance of one other on a really unfamiliar path. It’s a time to look again, evaluate what occurred, after which look ahead and commit to maintain going when crises inevitably come.Shutting downThe extremely contagious virus had already been declared a public well being emergency within the U.S. and three huge airways had already suspended flights to mainland China due to the outbreak there. However regardless of tales about virus-related sickness and loss of life in nursing properties on the West Coast and a lethal outbreak on a cruise ship, U.S. information cycles that morning appeared extra taken with the earlier night time’s Democratic primaries, which nudged Joe Biden alongside the trail to presidential nominee, and the sentencing of movie producer Harvey Weinstein for his rape and sexual abuse conviction.Nonetheless, WHO Director-Common Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ phrases to the media that morning have been stark: “Up to now two weeks, the variety of circumstances of COVID-19 exterior China has elevated 13-fold, and the variety of affected international locations has tripled. There at the moment are greater than 118,000 circumstances in 114 international locations, and 4,291 folks have misplaced their lives. Hundreds extra are preventing for his or her lives in hospitals. Within the days and weeks forward, we anticipate to see the variety of circumstances, the variety of deaths and the variety of affected international locations climb even greater.”The mysterious sickness — finest course of therapy unknown, particulars of its origin unclear, the way to cease its unfold unmapped, signs far and wide, no vaccine obtainable — “could be characterised as a pandemic,” Tedros stated. A coronavirus first.Later that day, Tom Hanks introduced he and his spouse, Rita Wilson, had contracted COVID-19. That night time, President Donald Trump addressed the nation relating to COVID-19. And as Deseret Information’ Sarah Todd was protecting the Utah Jazz vs. Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, officers despatched the gathered crowd residence on information that Jazz participant Rudy Gobert had examined constructive. Quickly, the entire NBA season was suspended.Tedros, standing at his podium, reported 81 international locations had no circumstances and you can rely these detected in 57 international locations in your fingers. There was time, he cajoled, to “change the course of this pandemic.”That was a Wednesday. By the weekend, employers and faculties have been sending folks residence and companies have been closing. Some by no means reopened.On the pandemic’s fourth anniversary, Worldometers stories the U.S. has had 111,638,262 confirmed circumstances of COVID-19, although it’s clearly a significant undercount. Most of us advised bosses or faculties, household or mates if we obtained COVID, however aren’t in an official tally. There have been 1,217,245 U.S. COVID-19-related deaths as of March 13, 2024. These numbers embody 5,719 deaths in Utah, of its 1,136,008 reported circumstances. Nationally, the loss of life rely contains 25,996 within the Veterans Administration well being care system, 2,268 within the Navajo Nation, 689 within the U.S. army, 324 in federal prisons and 7 on the Grand Princess cruise ship.The New York Instances this week made the case that the loss of life toll is way worse than indicated. “The Economist journal retains a working estimate of extra deaths, outlined because the variety of deaths above what was anticipated from pre-Covid traits. The worldwide complete is approaching 30 million.”A brand new Lancet examine reported the common life expectancy globally dropped by 1.6 years in the course of the pandemic′s first two years. Amongst high-income nations, the U.S. fared particularly poorly, with the very best extra mortality price in 2020 and 2021.An unmapped journeyThe pandemic was so severe in New York Metropolis for some time that nurses have been borrowed and our bodies have been typically saved in moveable morgues. General, New York had 7.5 million circumstances and greater than 83,000 deaths. However it wasn’t the hardest-hit state. Per Worldometers’ statistics, that was California, with 12.7 million circumstances and greater than 112,000 deaths.Colleges went on-line. Airways stopped flying to sure international locations. re banned entry of noncitizens who had visited 26 totally different European international locations inside two weeks of arriving within the U.S. Tens of millions of staff have been despatched residence except their in-person presence was deemed important. And the federal government responded with stimulus cash, monetary support for companies and different assist to cut back potential for an financial meltdown.Justin Christensen pictured Might 11, 2020, shortly earlier than he was discharged from the College of Utah Medical Middle after battling COVID-19. | Charlie Ehlert, College of Ut Medical employees maintain up an indication for Justin Christensen Might 11, 2020, shortly earlier than he was discharged from the College of Utah Medical Middle after battling COVID-19. | Charlie Ehlert, College of Ut Rayna Christensen, 39, left, her husband, Justin, and their kids Keyera, 18, Kyle 16, Kaycia, 13, and Kanyon, 10, are pictured exterior of their Grantsville residence on Thursday, Might 28, 2020. Justin Christensen was hospitalized for 2 months with COVID-19, throughout which era his household may solely talk with him through Skype. Rayna Christensen additionally examined constructive for the virus. “It’s not biased,” she stated of the virus. “It doesn’t select who it impacts.” | Ivy Ceballo, Deseret Information Justin Christensen, 42, smiles at his spouse Rayna, whereas sitting with their 4 kids exterior their Grantsville residence on Thursday, Might 28, 2020. “It’s not biased,” Rayna stated concerning the virus. “It doesn’t select who it impacts.” | Ivy Ceballo, Deseret Information Two months after the pandemic declaration, Deseret Information did an in-depth story on a Grantsville, Utah, husband and father of 4, Justin Christensen, then 42, who had been hospitalized for greater than two months after turning into sick with COVID-19 on a household journey to Disneyland. For many of that point, he was gravely ailing and docs at College Hospital described feeling their manner alongside a principally uncharted therapy path to avoid wasting him. They succeeded.“Medical doctors are nonetheless determining the way to deal with the illness, which has no confirmed treatment. The problem is nice as a result of COVID-19 assaults sufferers in another way; care varies even from room to room in the identical hospital. It’s nonetheless largely a matter of managing every complication that arises. Because the Christensens have been about to seek out out, COVID-19 can change shortly from a distant information story to a battle for survival,” the 2020 article stated.Medical doctors nationwide have been utilizing therapies confirmed for different sicknesses, typically boosted by experimental therapies like hydroxychloroquine, described as an “antimalarial lengthy shot” that fell from favor for COVID-19. Although most circumstances had comparatively minor signs, so many individuals wanted vital care that they shortly outpaced obtainable medical gear. States, together with Utah, drew up disaster requirements of care pointers to prioritize who’d entry instruments like ventilators ought to such selections be required.Shortages complicate COVIDSo a lot occurred in a really brief time.The illness appeared to ravage older folks, so these 60 and older have been advised to isolate if they may. Guests have been locked out of assisted residing, long-term care services and hospitals. Households have been advised to keep away from group gatherings and particularly older kin. In a world that wanted consolation, hugging and even handshakes stopped.In the meantime, native well being departments have been taking over extra employees to assist with contact tracing and governments and public well being specialists made backup plans as case counts grew. A part of Utah’s backup plan included turning an expo heart into a brief hospital for as much as 1,000 sufferers, full with a pharmacy.The pandemic was simply two weeks outdated when Deseret Information reported that shortages of lab assessments, protecting gear and different requirements “have made a extreme disaster even worse, with officers begging for assist. For instance, individuals who bought masks, gloves and different protecting gear for private use early on are requested — together with main care docs, veterinarians, dentists, development staff and others who may need their very own provides of sure sorts of masks — to donate them to suppliers for the general public good.” Some companies diverted to fabricate private protecting gear for well being care staff, besides, non-emergency medical procedures have been canceled. With huge want for testing, strains of vehicles wound into drive-through clinics. Testing provides and lab capability was insufficient. In early Might, at-home saliva-based testing eased a few of the testing angst.Easy masks designs have been created so those that may sew may make their very own, at the same time as of us have been scouring empty retailer cabinets for lavatory paper and hand sanitizer. The whole nation realized to obsessively wash their fingers whereas buzzing the Alphabet Tune twice.Two months seems like eternity when the world shudders. In April, the White Home got here up with “gating standards” to reopen the economic system, based mostly on reaching “benchmarks” decreasing sickness and deaths, as famous by an American Journal of Managed Care timeline.In actuality, 2020 was a scramble: to make the best public well being suggestions, to seek out the best medicines, to craft higher COVID-19 assessments, to create vaccines. The latter was really surprisingly swift, in a authorities/pharma push nicknamed Operation Warp Pace. As early as Might, dozens of vaccine candidates have been being thought-about, together with eight already in human trials. By early 2021, three vaccines within the U.S. had quick approval and authorities contracts for hundreds of thousands of doses.There have been reversals, too. The CDC stated masking wouldn’t assist. Then everybody was ordered to masks. Consultants stated the virus unfold by touching surfaces, however wasn’t airborne, which it proved to be.COVID-19 was on a rampage by all of it, gathering pace. On June 10, the U.S. hit a 2 million confirmed COVID circumstances milestone. By Aug. 17, COVID-19 was the No. 3 reason for loss of life within the U.S., behind coronary heart illness and most cancers. And every viral mutation introduced new levels of contagion and severity.Worse, greater than a 12 months in, some folks couldn’t appear to shake signs after surviving the virus. In October 2021, WHO launched a scientific definition of “lengthy COVID,” together with lingering signs. Some are fairly severe, together with horrible fatigue, mind fog, power ache, shortness of breath and chest ache. Whereas not a well being disaster, shedding one’s sense of odor was typically cited as a significant disappointment.Nikole Ihler, a nurse within the labor and supply division at College of Utah Hospital, waves as Hill Air Drive Base’s 388th Fighter Wing fly in formation over the hospital in Salt Lake Metropolis on Thursday, April 30, 2020. The flyover was a “thanks” to well being care staff, first responders, army members and important personnel, in addition to those that are staying residence to assist “flatten the curve” in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. How COVID-19 modified well being careHealth care supply modified in some ways because of the pandemic, hospitalist Dr. Russell Vinik, chief medical operations officer at College of Utah Healthcare and affiliate professor of drugs on the U., advised Deseret Information this week. He thinks a few of these adjustments will final.Telehealth is an enormous one. Earlier than the pandemic, visiting with a practitioner by a video hyperlink was accomplished primarily for low-acuity pressing care, like a urinary tract an infection. Pre-COVID, psychological well being was additionally making small inroads in telehealth. However usually, 1 in 100 patient-provider consultations have been distant. Within the pandemic, it zoomed — actually.“In the course of the early day within the pandemic, these telehealth techniques actually weren’t constructed out to have the ability to deal with it. However we did one of the best we may so we may care for sufferers just about. What we noticed was a really dramatic improve,” he stated, noting a minimum of half of affected person appointments have been telehealth.That was aided by the very fact guidelines have been modified to encourage digital visits to keep away from COVID-19 unfold.Whereas telehealth visits have dropped dramatically to about 1 in 10 or 1 in 12 visits now, they’re actually not 1 in 100. “We’re nonetheless in all probability 10 occasions greater than what we have been pre-pandemic, however considerably decrease than these peaks,” Vinik stated. And a few areas, like psychological well being, nonetheless make strong use of telehealth, perhaps as a lot as 40%, he added. When the care supplier doesn’t want to the touch the affected person, to present an injection or carry out a bodily examination, care is extra amenable to telehealth than when these wants exist.Masking additionally modified, Vinik stated. “Except for perhaps our chemotherapy sufferers, masks utilization was very uncommon. We’ve realized loads and I believe a whole lot of us acknowledge, if I get the sniffles, I ought to put on a masks. We actually see much more of that now than we did pre-pandemic and I believe that’s factor.”He famous that whereas guidelines are much less restrictive, the place sufferers are essentially the most weak, like neonatal intensive care, “we encourage much more masks utilization.” However the tradition modified, too. “The pandemic made it considerably regular and other people understand sporting a masks isn’t so horrible.”Some adjustments are much less welcome, the physician stated, together with vaccine skepticism. Even vaccines round for many years might generate skepticism and he famous COVID-19 “propelled an excellent larger debate about vaccines,” partly as a result of in the course of the pandemic new strategies of constructing them developed.One of many tragedies nonetheless impacting well being is delayed screening. On the top of the pandemic, mammography dropped by over 50%, whereas colonoscopies fell as a lot as 80%. The cancers themselves weren’t suspended, simply the seek for them. So cancers have been detected at later phases, Vinik stated. “Sufferers suffered due to that.”Classes proceed, Vinik stated. “We had a pandemic the place younger, wholesome folks have been dying daily proper in entrance of us. We made one of the best selections we may on the time to guard and comprise this illness. That is the place we be taught from it and attempt to transfer ahead.”He stated we realized “a ton” on the medical facet about fast improvement of therapies and new instruments like mRNA expertise that will probably be useful sooner or later. Utilizing antibodies to deal with illness was very new and can proceed to develop, together with data of how illness propagates.Failures and sorrow additionally emerged. “Now we have this legacy of melancholy and substance abuse which clearly worsened in the course of the pandemic. It’s actually in all probability too quickly to inform if we’re ever going to get again to our pre-pandemic baseline. And we hear on a regular basis about children that went by junior excessive and highschool, remoted from their mates. How are these children going to do?” Vinik requested.Gov. Gary Herbert, second from proper, speaks concerning the unfold of COVID-19 throughout a press convention within the Emergency Operations Middle on the Capitol in Salt Lake Metropolis on Thursday, March 12, 2020.. Additionally showing are, from left to proper, Noelle Cockett, president of Utah State College, Dr. Michael L. Good, CEO of College of Utah Well being, Ruth Watkins, president of the College of Utah, Dr. Angela Dunn, state epidemiologist, and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox. | Deseret Information Then and nowIt’s laborious to speak concerning the pandemic within the U.S. with out speaking about politics. Fairly early on, political divides erupted centered on COVID-19 insurance policies, in all probability partly as a result of it was an election 12 months. And a few of the division lingers. Even now, of us are divided on vaccines or sporting masks. There are debates about stimulus packages and insurance policies handed when folks have been shedding jobs, companies and faculties have been closing and it appeared the economic system may rupture. Each liberals and conservatives have criticized the dealing with of the pandemic.Liberals say that refusal to be vaccinated led to extra unfold and extra loss of life. Conservatives counter that bodily closing faculties lowered check scores, which have by no means recovered. A Nationwide Evaluation for Instructional Progress stated that occurred in blue states and in pink states. COVID-19 clearly deprived faculty children.There’s additionally fairly broad settlement that loads was realized, achieved and managed in a short while. It was all fingers on deck: scientists, docs, politicians, public well being, educators, retailer clerks — identify a career and people needed to step up. Disaster enlivened helpers.Final Might, the general public well being emergency for COVID-19 ended within the U.S. Simply this month, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention stated those that have COVID-19 don’t want to remain in isolation for 5 days after signs depart. We now typically discuss COVID-19 like we discuss different extra seasonal respiratory viruses. Tales consult with a “tripledemic” that features influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.A ache, however not a panic.Creekside Assisted Dwelling and Senior Middle resident Judy Taylor talks by cellphone to granddaughter Sally Taylor in Bountiful on Friday, March 27, 2020. Household of residents come to the window to see and speak to them through a cellphone resulting from Covid-19 restrictions. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information Cecilia Ochoa walks out of the Lehi Costco pushing a cart with water, bathroom tissue and different objects on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Consumers are being advised that they’ll solely purchase as much as 5 circumstances of water and as much as three circumstances of bathroom tissue from that retailer, as they put together themselves in the course of the coronavirus scare. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information An indication tells guests that Alta Ski Space is closed on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Utah’s ski resorts at the moment are closed because of the unfold of COVID-19. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information Newlyweds Michael and Stephanie Chaus wave to household and mates collaborating in a drive-by wedding ceremony reception exterior of Stephanie’s mother and father’ residence in Cottonwood Heights on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The couple have been to marry April 3 within the Jordan River Utah Temple, however their plans modified because of the unfold of novel coronavirus. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information A pedestrian crosses 200 south at 200 East in an almost empty downtown Salt Lake Metropolis in the course of the lunch hour on Friday, March 27, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret Information Lily Werner, 8, prays with the Rev. Stephen Tilley, of St. John the Baptist Parish, as he sits in his Jeep for drive-up confessions at a roundabout exterior the Skaggs Catholic Middle in Draper on Sunday, March 22, 2020. | Ivy Ceballo, Deseret Information A whole bunch of vehicles wait in line for hours on the Division of Motor Automobiles drive-thru window in Draper on Friday, April 3, 2020. Some waited in line for hours. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information A lone traveler walks to the parking zone of the Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert introduced new efforts on Wednesday “to guard the folks of Utah and gradual the unfold of coronavirus within the state” by intently monitoring its borders, in addition to passengers who fly into the airport. | Laura Seitz, Deseret Information Josue Mejicanos, who’s a server for 2 totally different eating places in Salt Lake Metropolis, walks out onto the sidewalk close to the Gallivan Middle on Saturday, March 14, 2020. He says that there was a noticeable distinction within the variety of folks downtown on a Saturday night. Coronavirus considerations are protecting many individuals residence. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information Cedarwood at Sandy resident Yvonne Bolingbroke holds an indication for caregivers as group volunteers wave indicators for the associates on the senior residing group in Sandy on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The concept was to point out the group’s appreciation for the caregivers. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information Ron and Wendy Van Tienderen, left, take part within the Hosanna Shout as they watch the Sunday morning session of the a hundred and ninetieth Annual Common Convention of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with their kids at their residence in Millcreek on Sunday, April 5, 2020. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information The home windows at The Grand America Resort in Salt Lake Metropolis are illuminated within the form of a coronary heart on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information Skate boarders experience on an almost empty 900 South close to 900 East in Salt Lake Metropolis on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret Information Jan Robinette, an emergency medical technician with the Utah Well being Emergency Response Crew, pushes an isolation cart contained in the Mountain America Expo Middle t in Sandy on Monday, April 6, 2020. The state contracted with Salt Lake County to make use of the expo heart as a hospital overflow facility for folks needing hospital care that’s not associated to COVID-19 ought to the necessity come up in the course of the pandemic. | Steve Griffin, Deseret Information The Most Rev. Oscar Solis, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake Metropolis, fingers out a palm on the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake Metropolis on Sunday, April 5, 2020. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information “My toes harm,” says Denise Begaye, an X-ray technician with the Monument Valley Well being Middle, as she sits on a curb and takes a break from COVID-19 testing exterior of the middle in Oljato-Monument Valley, San Juan County on Thursday, April 16, 2020. The cell testing workforce examined 581 folks on Thursday. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information The Crown Colony baseball subject in Holladay on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Crown Colony is a Cal Ripken youth baseball league that has been serving children ages 12 and underneath since its founding in 1959. | Steve Griffin, Deseret Information Enoch and Ann Bell wave to their kids and grandchildren after their wedding ceremony ceremony in Kaysville on Friday, April 24, 2020. | Laura Seitz, Deseret Information The Air Drive F-35A Lightning II demonstration workforce performs a flyover above Salt Lake Metropolis, on a path protecting a big swath of the state, to salute front-line COVID-19 staff on Thursday, April 30, 2020. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information Cara Luna, Tse’bii’nidzisgai Elementary Faculty fourth grade trainer, fingers a bag of meals to Alexus Bedonie from a faculty bus in Oljato-Monument Valley, San Juan County, on Thursday, April 30, 2020. Whereas faculties are closed resulting from COVID-19, buses are delivering homework and meals to college students two days every week. Navajo nation has one of many highest per capita COVID-19 an infection charges within the nation. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information Orange netting surrounds the soccer targets at Storm Mountain Park in Sandy, on Friday, Might 1, 2020. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information The Hallman household hosts a mock graduation ceremony for his or her College of Utah graduate of their Sugar Home residence amid the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, April 30, 2020. Joseph Hallman earned bachelor’s levels in Latin American research, Spanish and worldwide enterprise with an emphasis in commerce commerce in 2019 with hopes of strolling in the course of the spring 2020 graduation ceremony. | Ivy Ceballo, Deseret Information Individuals go to the Loveland Dwelling Planet Aquarium in Draper on Saturday, Might 9, 2020. The aquarium reopened to company with entry occasions starting at 10 a.m. to the final entry time at 7 p.m., and on-line ticket buying amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Indicators all through the aquarium encourage guests to put on masks and observe social distancing. | Ivy Ceballo, Deseret Information Ursula Quintana, heart, and her mom, Joleen Rogers, second from left, sit collectively earlier than Mass on the Cathedral of the Madeleine on Tuesday, Might 12, 2020. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information Graduate Jacy Penick, second from proper, and a crowd of siblings and cousins rejoice behind a pickup truck throughout a drive-thru commencement ceremony at Provo Excessive Faculty on Tuesday, Might 19, 2020. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information Erica Ford and her sons, Asher and Vincent, proper, head to the checkout counter with books they chose on the Orem Public Library on Tuesday, Might 26, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret Information Pals Aubrey Ellis and Marielle Donahoo obtain their diplomas throughout a drive-thru commencement ceremony at Alta Excessive Faculty in Sandy on Thursday, Might 28, 2020. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information A employee walks in entrance of the William E. Christoffersen Salt Lake Veterans House in Salt Lake Metropolis on Friday, Might 29, 2020. The power has had a COVID-19 outbreak. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information Elizabeth Montoya, proper, delivers meals to Macedonia Bonilla who was self-quarantining in the course of the pandemic within the Glendale group of Salt Lake Metropolis on Wednesday, Might 12, 2020. | Laura Seitz, Deseret Information Legislators within the Home of Representatives attend a particular session in individual and just about to cope with myriad COVID-19 price range adjustments on the Capitol in Salt Lake Metropolis on Thursday, June 18, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret Information Jennifer Thomas, Neighborhood Well being Facilities operations director, hangs an indication letting folks in line know they’re on the two-hour wait mark as autos wrap across the block ready for COVID-19 testing exterior of Glendale Center Faculty in Salt Lake Metropolis on Monday, June 22, 2020. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information Emily Hone leaves Dan’s Recent Market at 1360 S. Foothill Blvd. in Salt Lake Metropolis, after procuring along with her kids Abigail, left, and John, not pictured, on Monday, June 29, 2020. New indicators inform prospects that face coverings at the moment are required to enter the shop. | Steve Griffin, Deseret Information Cotton masks by Danielle Susi are on show as a part of the exhibit “From Earlier than to Now,” a present that includes 35 Utah artists underneath the age of 35, on the Utah Museum of Modern Artwork in Salt Lake Metropolis on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. The museum, which closed earlier this 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, reopened Wednesday. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information Angel Worth, left, will get some hand sanitizer from assistant coach Jon Worth throughout soccer observe at Highland Excessive Faculty in Salt Lake Metropolis on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information Quite a few motorists line up for COVID-19 testing close to College of Utah Well being’s Sugar Home Well being Middle in Salt Lake Metropolis on Saturday, July 11, 2020. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information Stephanie Harrill, Skyline Excessive Faculty custodian, units up desks in a cleaned classroom to prepare for the beginning of college at Skyline Excessive Faculty in Millcreek on Thursday, July 23, 2020. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information