Health care workers in US start receiving COVID-19 vaccines
Dr. Michelle Chester prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in New York. | Photo by Mark Lennihan / POOL / AFP via Getty Images
Just after 9AM on Monday, Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in Queens, New York, was vaccinated against COVID-19. Lindsay was one of the first people in the United States to get a dose of the newly authorized Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine and was the first to get the shot in New York, an early epicenter of the pandemic.
“I hope this marks the beginning of the end of a painful time in our history,” she said.
Breaking: A critical care nurse in Queens, Sandra Lindsay, is the first New Yorker to be vaccinated in a non-trial capacity after the first doses of Pfizer’s vial arrived at Northwell Health this morning. “It didn’t feel any different from taking any other vaccine,” Lindsay said. pic.twitter.com/KSaYEQUTHE
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