Utah reports 5,500 new COVID cases, but newly discovered test inaccuracies suggest undercounting
State officials confirmed 18 new COVID-19 deaths as hundreds remain hospitalized.
(Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) EMT, Charles Ledbetter, guides a patient in their car on how to do a self coronavirus test in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.
Erin is a reporter who has previously been an outdoor columnist and worked the crime beat. She was the lead reporter on The Tribune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of campus sexual assault. She has worked at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa and taught English for two years at teacher-training colleges in China.