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    A Nurse Is Bringing Light To A Dark Time With A Chandelier Made Up Of Vaccine Vials

    "I knew I had wanted to do something with light because I felt like it's just been such a dark year and a half that I wanted to bring light to whatever it was I was doing," Laura Weiss told NPR.
    by Vanessa Romo Sep 08, 2021 2 minutes
    Laura Weiss created the "Light of Appreciation" to honor her fellow nurses who helped inoculate 82% of the population in Boulder, Colo.

    Laura Weiss was a retired nurse in Boulder, Colorado, but when the county department of health issued a call for help in vaccinating eligible residents against COVID-19, she signed up.

    Over the past seven months, Weiss and her colleagues have inoculated hundreds of thousands of people, so she wanted to find a way to pay tribute to their collective effort.

    She's done that with a 4-foot-tall chandelier made with hundreds of vaccine

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