University of Utah Health nurse first in state to get COVID-19 vaccine
‘It really is overwhelming,’ she says
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Intermountain Healthcare registered nurse Sophie Woodbury, left, poses for a photo with state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn, and fellow Intermountain Healthcare registered nurses Monte Roberts, Amanda Vicchrilli, William Brunt and Julie Nelson at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake city on on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Woodbury, Roberts, Vicchrilli and Burnt were vaccinated for COVID-19 by Nelson.
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SALT LAKE CITY University of Utah Health nurse Christy Mulder called it “an overwhelming day” after receiving the first COVID-19 vaccination in Utah, just hours after the first doses arrived at the campus hospital Tuesday.
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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.