One of Oregon's first vaccinated healthcare workers on the COVID-19 shot, the pandemic

17/12/2020 26 min
One of Oregon's first vaccinated healthcare workers on the COVID-19 shot, the pandemic

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Episode Synopsis

The first healthcare workers in Oregon were vaccinated against COVID-19 on Wednesday, a historic moment in the pandemic that’s killed more than 1200 Oregonians in less than a year.
On this episode, we hear from one of the first Oregonians to receive the vaccine. Jeremy Howard is a respiratory therapist at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, where he’s worked since 2003. We talked about how he ended up on the short list to receive the vaccine, how it may change his life in the short and long term and much more.
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