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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.
The first shipments of COVID-19 vaccinations have been delivered to Utah Valley Hospital and the LDS Hospital, and Logan Regional Hospital will be following suit soon â perhaps even by Thursday.
âWeâre working on a distribution plan right now,â said Sarah Fitzgerald with Logan Regional. âWe could be getting it to our caregivers as early as Saturday or even next Monday, just depending on when the vaccine actually gets here, and so thatâs awesome news for us. Weâre super, super excited about that.â
The news was described as âa light at the end of the tunnelâ and âthe beginning of the endâ by Dr. Eddie Stenehjem, an Intermountain Healthcare infectious diseases physician, in a press conference on Monday.