Baldwin County nurse one of first to receive protection Baldwin County nurse Sheryl Swiger, was among the first in the state and the nation to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. Photo Courtesy of Infirmary Health Posted
By Allison Marlow
On Wednesday, Sheryl Swiger, a Baldwin County resident, was among the first people in the nation, and around the globe, to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Swiger, a nurse and director of Infirmary s Center for Wound Healing, Wound and Ostomy and Outpatient Infusion Therapy Departments, called the moment “exciting.”
“As an older health care worker working around positive Covid patients, I feel very excited to get the vaccine on the first day Infirmary Health is offering it to their at-risk employees,” she wrote in an email to The Baldwin Times after the inoculation. “This gives me hope and an added measure of peace of mind. It allows me to continue working and supporting the fight.”