The governor of the U.S. state of Utah, Gary Herbert, declared late on Sunday a new state of emergency to address hospital overcrowding in response to weeks of stress on its hospital networks due to a surge of novel coronavirus cases. “Due to the alarming rate of COVID infections within our state, tonight I issued a new state of emergency with several critical changes to our response”, Herbert said on Twitter. “These changes are not shutting down our economy, but are absolutely necessary to save lives and hospital capacity,” he said. The governor said the entire state was being placed under […]