(Intermountain Healthcare) Utah National Guard members approach St. George Regional Hospital on Feb. 8, 2022. The Utah National Guard has deployed 57 members to southwest Utah to work in the hospital and in long-term care facilities, as health care systems struggle to operate amid high numbers of COVID-19 infections and staffing losses during the pandemic.
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.
Alastair Lee Bitsóí is Diné from the Navajo Nation and is the Southern Utah reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune.