MOUNT VERNON â More than 100 area health care workers received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday.
At 7 a.m., two registered nurses, Tessa Olson and Janine Cook, received the first inoculations given in Skagit County. Olson works at Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington and Cook at Skagit Valley Hospital.
The doses were the first of two each recipient will need of the newly released Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The doses are given about three weeks apart.
âIt was so exciting,â said Dr. Connie Davis, Skagit Regional Healthâs chief medical officer. âIt makes us feel like weâre part of the overall initiative. It doesnât matter if youâre in a big city or small community, you can have access to the same technology, the same protection.â