Robert Gehrke: Utah’s hospitals can’t handle another holiday coronavirus surge

As the Continental Congress met to declare independence from Great Britain, nearby Boston was gripped with a lethal smallpox epidemic.More Revolutionary soldiers died of the disease than in battle, and, not long after signing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams received a letter from his wife Abigail. She was caring for their children who were sick from inoculations in a town gripped by the disease.“A most excruciating pain in my head and every limb and joint I hope portends a spee