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Breast cancer survivor Nicole Tanner, founder of drink company Swig, is photographed at her newest location in West Jordan on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Tanner raises money to help other women who need surgery and can’t afford to pay for it themselves. Eleven years ago, Tanner’s surgery was paid for by an anonymous donor.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
WEST JORDAN Before Nicole Tanner was a successful entrepreneur, she was just a normal person living a contented life with her husband and family in the scenic red rock country of southern Utah.
But in 2010 she came up with the idea to open up a drive-thru soda shop that would serve thirsty customers all manner of their favorite soft drinks in wild flavor combinations along with the requisite sweet snacks.
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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.
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Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY The day hospitals in Utah started vaccinating caregivers against COVID-19 was one for the record books, according to the pharmaceutical supply manager at University of Utah Hospital.
“It was the best day of work I’ve ever had,” Russell Findlay told the Deseret News. He said it felt like “the deliverer of hope.”
“There’s been so much anxiety and uncertainty over the last nine months or so and this was a feeling that we’re turning a corner,” Findlay said, adding that there is a lot of excitement among his colleagues at U. Health.