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The covid?

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I'm kit news three's george mallet with what a medical icu nurse had to say about continued caution shortly after getting the coveted vaccine.

I am so proud and elated to be representing omc employees at olmsted medical center are rolling up their sleeves for a covid vaccine today too.

I'm kimt news three's annalise johnson live with what one nurse says it's like to be a part of this moment in history ?i'm keeping an eye on some possible snow this evening, followed by a nice warm?

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I'll got everything you need to know, coming up./// kimt news three first at four starts right now.

Good afternoon and thank you for joining us for kimt news 3 first at 4.

I'm katie lange covid?

"*19 continues to spiral out of control across the u?

"*s as americans start to get vaccinated.

Coming up in this hour.

It's a monumental day for the med city as frontline workers at mayo clinic and olmsted medical center roll up their sleeves to get vaccinated against the deadly virus.

And more americans are masking up.

We're taking a look at a new survey revealing how many americans say it's their responsibility to protect the health of others.

Plus?

"* new a group of six mayo clinic healthcare workers today received a first dose of the pfizer covid?

"*19 vaccine this morning.

Kimt news 3's george mallet covered today's historic event and is here now with the story.

Coronavirus katie i want to say right up front?

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"* the overwhelming sentiment coming out of mayo clinic today is upbeat.

The people who received the vaccine are all on the front line?

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"*?* are living this drama every day.

Now, there is a feeling that we have turned an important corner.

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"* that sense of optimism is tempered by the knowledge that we are not out of the woods yet.

It is not an overstatement to say history was made this morning at mayo clinic.

A year ago?

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Today a powerful first blow was delivered to the insidious virus as six frontline workers including doctors, nurses and a respiratory therapist received the much ballyhooed pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

After the event?

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"* mayo ma recipients available in a zoom conference call.

Abigail carter, a medical icu nurse made the case for continued caution?

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"* social distancing?

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"* and mas by sharing what she experiencing each day with her gravely ill patients.

The emotional toll it takes, knowing that their loved ones can't be there and be with them is heartbreaking and i've had families call and say i don't want them to be alone and we just have to reassure them that they're not alone, like i'm here with them and i'm holding their hand and i wish you could be here too.

I coronavirus thanks george?

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"* amy... olmsted medical center also administered its first covid?

*- 19 vaccine dose today.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson joins us live to tell us about the first employee to get the shot.

Annalise?

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"* it's a big day for medical workers here at olmsted medical center ?

"* throughout the med city ?

"* and across southeastern minnesota.

For them ?

"* taking care of patients throughout the pandemic has been a stressful experience.

But now with the first shipments of the vaccine ?

"* they're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

Take a look at this... emergency department nurse diane schwarz is the first o?

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"*c employ be vaccinated.

She says she feels so proud and elated to be a part of this moment in history.

She was nearly brought to tears as she received the with someone who takes care of these patients directly, it means not only safety for me, but safety for my family, and when youve seen someone with covid and watched them struggle with breathing and watching them with that look of fear in their eyes, this is a very exciting day so that we can finally see the light in that tunnel schwarz was monitored for about 15 minutes after her vaccination ?

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She says she feels great ?

"* has no side effects ?

"* and it didn't hurt.

Live in rochester?

"* annalise thank you annalise.

Coming up on kimt news 3 at 5 ?

"* we will break down the next steps in o?

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"*c's vaccination plan.

Stormteam 3 it's time for a quick check on the weather with kimt stormteam 3 meteorloigist sara knox.

Sara what are you tracking?

Live tonight: light brief early, some fog, cloudy lows: lower 20s wind: s 5?

"*15 saturday: am clouds/pm sunshine highs: lower 30s wind: nw 5?

"*10 sunday: partly sunny highs: middle 30s wind: w 5?

"*15 a woman is in the care of mayo health systems after austin first responders pulled her out of icy water.

Police say they responded to eastside lake park just before 10:30 last night after a report of screams from the area.

Officers found a victim bobbing in the water.

When the austin fire department and mayo clinic ambulance service arrived ?

"* the victim was unresponsive.

It was dark and foggy ?

"* causing challenges fr rescue efforts.

A?

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"*d was to get into the water and swim a significant distance to the female victim.

They were pulled to shore.

The victim was not breathing and didn't have a pulse.

A minnesota based company is playing a huge roll in the fight against covid?

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What they're doing to keep people alive and doses of the vaccine cold.

Around two billion doses of covid vaccines are being secured for countries around the world.

The breakdown of the purchase./// as people start to get vaccineated?

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"* there are s people dying from the coronavirus.

The number of people expected to die by