ER nurse one of first vaccinated for COVID-19 in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) On Monday, Dec. 14, Amy Christopher was one of the very first people to get a COVID-19 vaccine in the Pikes Peak region.
Christopher is an Emergency Room nurse at UCHealth Memorial Central Hospital in Colorado Springs. She cares for COVID-19 patients in their worst and sometimes final moments. Christopher is looking forward to the added layer of protection the vaccine will give her against the virus.
“It feels like we’ve been waiting forever but it hasn’t been forever,” Christopher said. “I was just excited to get on board. We’re making history as one of the first 20, so that’s exciting.”
UC Health Memorial frontline workers get first COVID-19 doses
THIS WAS A HISTORIC DAY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS IN COLORADO
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COLORADO SPRINGS â There was a line of UC Health Memorial frontline COVID-19 care givers stepping up to get the COVID-19 vaccine when the first ever doses arrived Monday. The very first was Emergency Department Charge Nurse, Jeremy Hulsker. âI tell the people in the Emergency Department I would never ask you to do anything I wouldn t do myself. Whether cleaning a room, mopping, grabbing lunch, and in this case taking this vaccine, [it would] be hard to talk to my staff, my community if I wasn t willing to do it myself.â