Coronavirus in Utah One Year Later: Intermountain Doctors and Utah’s First COVID-19 Positive Patient to Reflect on Experience That Began One Year Ago on Sunday

WHAT:
It was exactly one year ago on Sunday – February 28, 2020 – that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested that Intermountain Healthcare provide care for Utah’s first COVID-19 positive patient and he was admitted into a special isolation unit to be treated.

St. George resident, Mark Jorgensen, and his wife, Jerri had been infected with coronavirus during a vacation aboard a cruise ship in Asia.

Intermountain Healthcare caregivers treated Jorgensen, Utah’s first COVID-19 positive patient in an advanced, special unit designed for high-level isolation at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray – one of only a handful of high-tech isolation units available in the United States.

Highly-trained Intermountain nurses and physicians monitored and cared for Jorgensen, who exhibited no symptoms and remained asymptomatic afterward, for a week until it was deemed safe by the CDC for him to quarantine at his home in St. George.

Doctors will talk about this first case and the lessons learned about COVID19 over the course of the next year. Jorgensen will share his experience and talk about his life since that time.

WHEN:
Noon, MT, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021

WHERE:
Zoom Press Conference: