(Photo courtesy of Stephanie Deer) Health care workers at Riverton Hospital put patient Laurie Pratt Terry on a helicopter to take her to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray after a two-and-a-half-hour wait. Terry, 47, suffered a heart attack on Oct. 6. Her family says her transfer was delayed for hours because of hospital crowding due to the coronavirus.
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.