Gov. Spencer Cox will keep age requirement at 70 for COVID-19 vaccine

Utah will stick with giving the COVID-19 vaccine to people age 70 and older in the next round of vaccinations, Gov. Spencer Cox said Thursday — even with a new federal guideline to give shots to everyone 65 and older as soon as possible.“We don’t have enough vaccine assigned to the state of Utah right now to even cover those who are 70 years of age and over, over the next several weeks,” Cox said Thursday, during his weekly COVID-19 media briefing.Cox pointed out that 73%