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Erin Alberty

reporter

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.

Updated: New records detail complaints against TestUtah, from ‘piles’ of ignored samples to ‘contaminated’ COVID tests

By Erin Alberty | Bethany Rodgers | March 31, 2022, 5:31 p.m.

Utah nonprofit drugmaker says it can make 1/3 of America’s insulin — and sell it cheap

By Erin Alberty | March 8, 2022, 10:37 p.m.

Utah COVID-19 cases now averaging fewer than 300 per day

By Erin Alberty | March 7, 2022, 9:34 p.m.

Here’s why Utah’s COVID-19 testing in schools went from national model to abandoned failure

By Erin Alberty | Betsy Ladyzhets | Brown Institute for Media Innovation; MuckRock’s Documenting COVID-19 project | March 7, 2022, 9:06 p.m.

Advanced cancer cases up sharply after colonoscopies drop by half, Utah doctors say

By Erin Alberty | March 3, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

U of U Hospital is catching up on 500 surgeries. Now it’s bringing in the military to help.

By Erin Alberty | March 2, 2022, 8:49 p.m.

Utah’s COVID-19 cases declining, but some Salt Lake County residents should still mask up, health director says

By Paighten Harkins | Erin Alberty | February 28, 2022, 11:53 p.m.

‘We’re still at really high rates:’ As Utah COVID cases decline, hospitalizations and deaths compare to previous peaks

By Erin Alberty | February 22, 2022, 10:53 p.m.

Utah will stop daily COVID case counts, close test sites in wind-down, Gov. Cox announces

By Erin Alberty | February 18, 2022, 11:58 p.m.

There’s new advice to help immunocompromised Utahns stay safe from COVID

By Erin Alberty | February 17, 2022, 3:27 p.m.

Utah doctors have noticed a pattern in how COVID long-haulers finally recover

By Erin Alberty | February 15, 2022, 1:50 p.m.

Utah COVID deaths remain high and ICUs are getting more crowded — but cases continue to drop

By Erin Alberty | February 11, 2022, 8:41 p.m.

COVID-19 is still filling rural Utah’s hospitals. Now providers are bringing in the military.

By Erin Alberty | Alastair Lee Bitsóí | February 11, 2022, 1:09 p.m.

Utah COVID cases dropping, but hundreds are hospitalized and 13 more have died

By Erin Alberty | February 10, 2022, 10:51 p.m.

COVID claims 15 more Utahns, while hundreds remain hospitalized

By Erin Alberty | February 9, 2022, 9:22 p.m.

Utah’s COVID long-haulers are predominantly young — and many were previously healthy, doctors say

By Erin Alberty | February 9, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

Utah reports 5,500 new COVID cases, but newly discovered test inaccuracies suggest undercounting

By Erin Alberty | February 7, 2022, 11:59 p.m.

This Utah 3-year-old spent 22 days in a hospital with COVID. Now his mom and brother have been hospitalized, too.

By Erin Alberty | February 5, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

Hundreds of Utahns hospitalized with COVID, but new cases continue to drop Friday

By Erin Alberty | February 4, 2022, 11:11 p.m.

Patients with COVID risks describe betrayal, abandonment as Utah doctor’s tweet goes viral

By Erin Alberty | February 4, 2022, 9:53 p.m.