/
Nurse manager Tessa Vasquez received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine administered at Heber Valley Hospital on Wednesday.
Hospital employees in Heber City and Park City became the first rural healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a statement Intermountain Healthcare released Wednesday.
Nurse manager Tessa Vasquez of Heber Valley Hospital was the first healthcare worker at either facility to receive the drug. She said the vaccine is critical not only for hospital employees and their families but also for the communities they serve.
“It helps [healthcare workers] to be able to be here and not miss work because of being sick so that we have enough people to care for the community when they need it,” she said.
over there, that s for sure. thank you for that report. let s get more on all of this. republican congressman chris stewart of utah is joining us. congressman, thank you for joining us. let me get right to the key issue right now. the president is clearly hedging on whether this election is a referendum on him. what do you think, yes or no? do you think it is a referendum on the president of the united states? yes, to some degree. i tell you, at the end of the day, wolf, there are 435 house elections, all individual, and they really pivot many times on local issues and the local candidates. i got to tell you, i know some of your reporters want to people to assume that this president has written off the house. i think they vastly underestimate this president and this white house if they think it is true. i can tell you i ve talked with them over the last few days. they re not writing off the house at all, and i think we may have some surprises tomorrow. i guess we will wait and se
effect two years from now, four years from now and on. didn t we say this about donald trump when he ran for president? oh, he s so polarizing. you know what happened? he won. he won. right. how do we know it will be so bad for republicans? it is a trade, right? the party is trading white collar for blue collar, suburbs for rural, younger for older. that is the trade he is imposing on the party. as jeff points out, it can work. it can work in the short term, but what tomorrow is going to be is the most clearest indication of a cost of the trade because you are going to see i think a virtual whatever happens in the house overall, a virtual wipeout of republicans in the white collar suburban districts, not only the east and west coast but potentially atlanta, dallas and houston as well. what will be left is a party simply rooted in non-metro america, small town, rural, blue collar america, a more trumpy party, but one that is seeding the area and growing the
we ve extended that now to republicans and been beat on the head so badly by the media. we ve been told we re racist, sexist, bigots, that we re fascist, and a number of people are hesitant, a little shy to tell the pollster, yeah, i m supporting my republican congressman or congresswoman or someone for congress. i have been told that that s an unknown number that may influence the outcome in a way that we really didn t anticipate yet. i think you re right. i think there are plenty of people out there reluctant to tell a pollster they actually will go ahead and vote for a republican precisely because of the reasons you are mentioning right there. i think there s ample evidence of that. let me shift gears and it is a horrible story and it is a horrible, very tragic, sad development. i want to get your reflections on a fellow individual from utah, the death of brent taylor who stepped down as mayor of ogden, utah to deploy with the utah army national guard. he was killed in an appare
the national interest, but it is not always a focus when you go to rural utah or rural california or some of the other places that people are campaigning every day. yeah. the president says, yeah, the economy is great but he says it is sort of boring, he doesn t really want to talk about it. he wants to talk about the caravan and the illegal immigration, that s what really generates the base as far as he s concerned. is he making a mistake? should he be talking more about a strong economy, low unemployment, good jobs numbers? yeah, i think we got to talk about both. look, i don t know anyone and i mean republican, democrat, independent, i don t know anyone who thinks it is okay to have i shouldn t say that because there are some who think it is okay to have open borders. i think that s nuts. i think most americans realize our border security is worth discussing. at the same time, we have the strongest economy since we have been born or since we were young men, the lowest unempl