A deep feeling of relief.
Hansen is a housekeeper in the emergency room at Doylestown Hospital, one of the highest-risk places to work during the ongoing pandemic.
Still, she had been reluctant about getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine when the hospital started distributing it to employees on Friday.
But after seeing and speaking to others who were among the first to get the vaccine, she felt encouraged enough to schedule her first dose on Tuesday. Now, she is telling other reluctant coworkers there is nothing to fear.
“I feel peaceful, she said. “It has lifted a weight off me that I wasn’t even expecting. It doesn’t seem so scary now.”