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COVID-19 - News

A sign thanking healthcare workers outside of Lone Peak Hospital. (Courtesy of Lone Peak Hospital)

Students Heading into Healthcare Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic

By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer June 14, 2020

    Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have been busy, nurses and doctors have been overworked and the need for healthcare workers has become more and more apparent....

University of Utah Student Quinn Case works out in his SLC apartment on May 29th, 2020. (Photo by Mark Draper | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

U Student Life Center Offers Online Fitness

By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer June 2, 2020

    The Student Life Center on the University of Utah’s campus is a hub of activity. It provides students, faculty and staff alike with a variety of resources such as open gyms, equipment...

The Block U on the University of Utah Campus, Salt Lake City, UT on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

University of Utah Officials Release ‘Return to Campus’ Plan for Fall Semester

By Megan McKellar and Kayleigh Silverstein June 2, 2020

  On June 1, University of Utah, President Ruth Watkins issued an official announcement to the @theU website about the University of Utah’s plans for returning to campus this fall. President...

NYC action in solidarity with Ferguson. Mo, encouraging a boycott of Black Friday Consumerism.

Community Town Hall Discusses the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on the Black Community

By Megan McKellar, News Writer May 30, 2020

  On May 28, the Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs held a virtual Black Community Town Hall via Zoom and Facebook Live to facilitate a discussion about COVID-19 and its impact on the black...

Quinn Case, a University of Utah undergraduate majoring in PRT, reads the Practice Mindfulness page on the University Utah Mindfulness Center website while at his apartment in Salt Lake City on May 19th, 2020. (Photo by Mark Draper | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Mental Health and the Coronavirus: Challenges and Resources

By Megan McKellar, News Writer May 23, 2020

  After three months of COVID-19 directly effecting Americans' work and social lives, people have also found themselves confronted with a host of challenges that have taken a toll on general...

Navajo activists lead a prayer at the end of The Utah Peoples Climate March in front of the Governors Mansion in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday, Apr. 29, 2017. (Photo by Rishi Deka | Daily Utah Chronicle)

Utah Tribal Town Hall Emphasizes Needs of the Navajo Nation During the Pandemic

By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer May 22, 2020

  Although several states, including Utah, have decreased COVID-19 regulations, the virus continues to spread. One major population that has seen significant effects of the virus is the Navajo...

(Inside the Natural History Museum of Utah | Daily Utah Chronicle)

Amidst a Pandemic, the NHMU Goes Virtual

By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer May 11, 2020

  While Salt Lake City and Utah, in general, have not seen a devastating spread of COVID-19 compared to the rest of the country, local businesses and cultural centers like museums continue to be...

(Courtesy University of Utah Hospital)

Frontline Workers Respond to Local Protests

By Angelyn Ramos, News Writer May 9, 2020

  On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry addressed fellow delegates at the second Virginia convention exclaiming “Give me liberty or give me death.” Citizens throughout the United States would write...

Students out and about on the University of Utah campus | Daily Utah Chronicle

The fall semester is up in the air amidst COVID-19 pandemic

By Natalie Colby, Editor-in-Chief April 20, 2020

  Fall semester registration opened on April 13, and with the summer semester fully online and changes being constantly made to the University of Utah, a level of uncertainty remains for students...

(Banner welcoming students living on campus to the University of Utah in Aug. 2014 | Chronicle archives)

Pandemic Pandemonium: Student Leaders at the U Lose Housing Contracts, Fight for Compensation, and then Lose It

By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer April 18, 2020

The first email student leaders received from Housing and Residential Education told them they could keep their jobs and stay on campus amidst the pandemic. The next five, however, told a very different...