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ST. GEORGE, Utah High demand for the COVID-19 vaccine from southwest Utah residents aged 70 and older caused the local health department s website to crash on Monday morning. We understand how frustrating this is for many of our seniors, read a statement from David Heaton, spokesperson for the Southwest Utah Public Health Department.
Once the website became overwhelmed, the local health department sought the help from the state to set up a temporary sign-up page. It s very frustrating, said Washington County resident Marsha Rogers. This is just so unfair to those other people who are not technology savvy.
Once the temporary page got up and running, all remaining vaccine appointments through the end of January were quickly reserved.
ST. GEORGE It s just the little things that make a huge difference, Avery Broadbent, an ICU nurse at Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center, tells the camera. By not washing your hands even one time you can potentially change someone s life forever, she continues. People die. Everyday. And it s all, she pauses as she fights back tears, it s all preventable. All of it.
Broadbent s plea to Utahns to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus is just one of several told during a video tour of the hospital s efforts against COVID-19 released this week.
Recently, false rumors claiming hospitals are not overburdened have circulated in the state and a group of conspiracy theorists even tried to get into Utah Valley Hospital to prove the ICUs are not overwhelmed. They were thwarted and hospitals have since upped security measures.