Colorado nurse transforms Covid vaccine vials into a work of art to show appreciation for healthcare workers

 A public health nurse in Colorado took empty Covid-19 vaccine vials and made them into beautiful art, paying tribute to her fellow healthcare workers.

Laura Weiss told CNN she was a retired nurse when Boulder County Public Health asked for help administering vaccines in February.

"I had noticed all these hundreds and hundreds of empty vaccine vials that were otherwise going to be wasted, and I thought they were just really beautiful and wanted to do something significant and meaningful with them," Weiss said.

Weiss got permission to use the glass Moderna vaccine vials and created a beautiful chandelier.

"I realized I wanted to do something with light because I just felt like it's been such a dark and challenging year for so many people that like the idea of bringing a light to this," she said.

"I think that light can represent hope and clarity and it also has the potential to actually expand the bigger view and verify perspective."

"This light of appreciation art piece is really important because I think we're all seeing this sense of unity at this point as we see the Delta variant surge," Angela Simental, the communications and marketing manager for Boulder Public Health, told CNN.

"We're really happy to have this kind of light in art to remind us that we can protect ourselves and others by getting vaccinated by being kind to each other and by honoring the efforts of everybody involved in this."

Information and image source cnn.com