Here are first-hand accounts of what it's like to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, from older health care workers among the first to receive vaccinations.
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5PM: Caregivers at Intermountain Healthcare among first in Utah to get COVID vaccine
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SALT LAKE CITY Five University of Utah Health workers and four Intermountain Healthcare staffers became the first Utahns to receive the COVID-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial Tuesday.
Vaccinations took place at the University of Utah Hospital and Intermountain s LDS Hospital on Tuesday. Christy Mulder, a U. health intensive care unit nurse, was the first person to receive the vaccine in Utah, U. health officials said on Twitter.
U. health care assistant Diana Navarrete, environmental services worker Maria Cuevas, emergency medicine Dr. Stephen Hartsell, and respiratory therapist Brad Thompson were all vaccinated shortly after Mulder Tuesday morning.
âAn overwhelming dayâ as health care workers receive Utahâs first doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Receiving the vaccine, one nurse said, âis going to help me treat my patients with more kindness and hope.â
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nurse Sophie Woodbury, state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn, and nurses Monte Roberts, Amanda Vicchrilli and William Brunt pose for a photo after the first Covid-19 vaccines were administered to the four nurses at LDS Hospital, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. | Updated: Dec. 16, 2020, 3:05 p.m.
Intensive care unit nurse Christy Mulder became the first Utahn to receive a shot of COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, as health care workers were at the front of the line for the stateâs first shipments.