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DESERET NEWS: Utah outperforms Washington on vaccine rollout
15 March 2021 - 13:49
President Joe Biden has set a deadline of May 1 for all adults to be eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine. He also talked about setting up a new federal website to help people find vaccination sites.
But Utah is way ahead of him. Governor Spencer Cox has already announced that all adults in the state will be eligible for vaccines from April 1. Up to the weekend almost 1-million people had received shots — not bad for a state with an estimated population of 3.3-million. Officials estimate 79% of people over 70 in Utah have been vaccinated, as well as 64% of those 65-69 and 29% of those 50-64...
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