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Health care workers at five of the state’s largest hospitals will be the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it is approved for emergency use.
Sarah Cookler is a physician assistant at the University of Utah’s emergency department. She spends a few shifts a month in its isolated COVID-19 unit and could be one of the first people in Utah to receive the vaccine.
Even though it was developed in less than a year — an unprecedented timeline — she said she has no reservations about taking it, especially because it’s really the only way out of this pandemic.