THE THANK YOU PARKING LOT I don t think 2020 has been an easy year for any of us. We ve been cut off from loved ones, events have been canceled, jobs have been lost, mental and physical health and been affected and loved ones have been taken from us.
With all the difficulties, however, there has been a lot of good. We ve found new ways to connect, been able to spend more time at home and hopefully, some of our cooking has become better out of necessity.
Things have been difficult for our frontline workers, but they have also been one of those bright spots of 2020. Their sacrifice, dedication and work ethic to help all of those facing health issues is inspiring. Doctors and nurses have lost their lives as they combat this virus and they do it because this is what they have been trained for and they want to help.
SALT LAKE CITY Utah is expected to receive about 32,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses each week to close out 2020 following a miscommunication between the federal government and states receiving vaccine doses, according to a state health department spokesperson.
The state has already listed 25,000 doses shipped, according to a Utah Department of Health update on Tuesday. The new weekly estimate means that Utah will likely fall short of the 154,000 vaccine doses it had originally anticipated by the end of December.
Utah was among states that reported late last week that it didn t receive as many vaccine doses that it had estimated in the first week after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved by federal regulators. U.S. Army Gen. Gustave Perna apologized for the gaffe over the weekend, calling the original estimate of vaccines to be distributed a miscommunication, the Associated Press reported.
Early Research from Waggl Indicates that 58% of Frontline Healthcare Workers Are Most Concerned About COVID-19 Vaccine Adoption
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Increased Public Education Will Be Critical to Establishing Confidence for a Successful Rollout The Voice of Healthcare Workers is a dynamic resource that enables frontline healthcare workers to share real-time suggestions and insights with their peers. We’ve developed ‘The Voice of Healthcare Workers’ to give our frontline healthcare heroes a collective voice and ensure all healthcare organizations and the people who work for them have the most current data and insights to navigate these next few months,” said Michel Papay, CEO, Waggl.
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Since the start of the pandemic, Hispanic and Latinx Utahns have made up a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 cases. That gap has narrowed, but the disease remains widespread in the community.
Fourteen-year-old Angel Ocampo lives in Layton. But on a Thursday morning in December, he was in Salt Lake City sitting in the passenger seat of his family’s minivan next to his mom. They were driving through a barn at the Utah State Fairpark being used as a drive-through COVID-19 test site. Two lines of cars thread their way between rows of empty metal animal stalls.
“My mom tested positive,” Ocampo said. “[That s] the reason why we’re here.”
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Liz Barnes, director of critical care and an intensive care nurse at Lakeview Hospital, pumps her fists in celebration after receiving the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the MountainStar Healthcare hospital in Bountiful on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. The hospital received its first 500 doses of the Moderna vaccine and is one of the first health care facility in the state to distribute it to its front-line staff.
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BOUNTIFUL More hospitals in Utah started inoculating the most at-risk health care workers on Monday after receiving doses of the newly approved Moderna vaccine.
“It was honestly a really great moment for us. We’ve been waiting for this for a long time, and we’re just super excited to get it done,” said Liz Barnes, an ICU nurse at Lakeview Hospital.