Vaccination of frontline workers at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County began immediately.
“We did not want to wait,” said MHSC Pathologist Dr. Cielette Karn. “There are people who want to get vaccinated now. There are really a lot of people wanting to get going on this.”
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MHSC ICU Nurse Weston Turner was the first person in Sweetwater County to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination.
“I feel honored to be part of such a momentous occasion,” Turner said. “It’s all part of helping in the process of finding a cure for COVID.”
Turner, who has worked for the hospital just three days, said the shot didn’t hurt, but “it would have been better with a beer.”