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Salt Lake City – Utah will receive the first shipment of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
This will include Southern Utah where Dixie Regional Medical Center will receive the first local shipment of the vaccine.
Frontline workers at the hospital who work directly with CVAVID-19 patients will be the first to receive the vaccine on a voluntary basis. Which will be followed next week by long-term care center staff and residents, followed by K-12 teachers.
The vaccine, which can induce fever for 24 to 48 hours as a side effect, has been 95% effective in trials.
The Utah Department of Health has received notice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the first shipment will arrive on Monday, the state’s coronavirus response team tweeted Friday night, Fox13New.com reported. The second shipment is expected to arrive on Tuesday.
U.S. The news came after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the vaccine, which is being manufactured by Pfizer and Biontech.
St. George’s News Weekend Editor / Reporter Chris Reid contributed to this article.
Read the full story here: Fox 13Now.com.
Written by Spencer Burt, Fox 13Now.com.
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Southern Utah Coronavirus Count (December 12, 2020, seven day average in parentheses)
Positive COVID-19 tests: 15,189 (238.9 new infections per day in seven days, down from 10 December)
- Washington Washington County: 11,915 (day 169.9, dropped)
- Iron County: 2,514 (51.7 of the day, dropped)
- Kane County: 268 (9.0 per day, increasing)
- Garfield County: 262 (2.3 per day, increasing)
- Beaver County: 230 (6 per day, dropped)
New infections for major Southern Utah cities (numbers published next to Southern Utah numbers):
Mortality: 111 (2.1 of the day, rising)
- Washington Washington County: (1 new (New: hospitalized male-65-8484, hospitalized 85-year-old male, hospitalized male-84-8484)
- Iron County: 10
- Garfield County: 7 (1 new: female 45-64 unknown status)
- Kane County: 1
- Beaver County: 2
Hospitalized: 47 (emerging)
Active case: 4,679 (increasing)
Current Utah averages seven days: 2,702 (falling)
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