SAM NELSON and BLAKE NICHOLSON
Bismarck Tribune staff
Gov. Doug Burgum received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, the same day he announced an easing of coronavirus pandemic restrictions on some long-term care facilities.
He and his wife, first lady Kathryn Burgum, drove through the Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health vaccination clinic with dozens of others to get their first doses of the Moderna vaccine.
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum received his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine today at the Event Center in Bismarck.
When vaccines became available in mid-December, Burgum, 64, said he would wait to be vaccinated until the shots were available to his priority group.
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