Utah hits a grim milestone: 1,500 deaths from COVID-19

Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Just short of one year since the first reported case of COVID-19 in the United States, Utah has reached 1,500 coronavirus-related deaths. And the number of patients in intensive care remained at 214, near the all-time high in the s