We have a new nickname for Utah Governor Spencer Cox…He’s bold enough to tweet out video of himself trying to swat a bat out of his living room with a broom he must have stolen from the wicked witch of the west!

Dave and Debbie take you through the video and go over how to get rid of bats and other pests in your home.

 

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Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson tweeted this morning that the county has 2,000 vaccine appointment openings. How quickly those appointments fill up and how many go unfilled will paint the picture this week about vaccine hesitancy in Utah. SLCO Health Department, Nicholas Rupp joins the show to discuss their vaccine appointment expectations.

 

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With 12,700 appointments for COVID-19 vaccines available in three counties along the Wasatch Front, we speak with Utah Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson about vaccine equity and vaccine casualness.  In other words, whether all Utahns have equal access to the vaccine, and the phenomenon of people who are waiting to let others go first.

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Skyrocketing COVID cases in India .. More than 345,000 cases per day, hospitals turning people away and oxygen is in high demand.

The US says it will send vaccine materials and other supplies to help the country, The US is sitting on 30 million doses of AstraZeneca so the question arises -- are we doing enough?

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There are 3 men -- two from Utah -- who were sent to the clink late last week for an age-old scam that works like a charm on the elderly. They promised they could extract gold from dirt, and like a gold rush, investors came running.

Sort of came running.

They scammed $8 million from 140 victims across the country. The sad part is that most of the victims were elderly. Dave and Debbie discuss the scams.

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A 6-story apartment complex is nearing completion in SLC -- where rent will be under $1,000 per month. But here's the catch -- you have to want to live in a shipping container. It’s literally stacked like a massive lego castle -- but it’s shipping containers. How common is this and will it help the housing crisis?

 

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The week that vaccine hesitancy will become more obvious 52% eligible adults with one dose, 48% without. Appointments going unused. We check in on the latest, including J&J being unpaused, with Dr. Tamara Sheffield.  Then, insights from Trevor Warner, Davis County Health Department, and Aislynn Tolman Hill from the Utah County Health Department, on what appointments look like in their counties. Finally we turn the spotlight on ourselves, and ask whether the media has played a role in undermining the vaccine.

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Instant certainty with Boyd Matheson. And the reason we’re talking about this -- the police killing of a 16 year old girl in Ohio Tuesday minutes after the guilty verdict was read in the George Floyd Murder Trial. Boyd Matheson give his insight on moments of instant certainty.

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Vaccine slowdown -- the president has a plan to reverse that by giving small businesses a big tax break if their employer gives them time off to get vaccinated -- will your employer pass that on to you?

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This is the best invention since sidewalk chalk and jump ropes. A cell phone plan for kids that has zero access to the internet, is super cheap with monthly fees, and you can text them and they can text you -- unlimited. Dave and Debbie break down how it works.

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