Healing is coming : U.S. health workers start getting vaccine
December 15, 2020 / 12:20 PM / AP First U.S. vaccine recipients on side effects
Health care workers around the nation rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort could defeat the coronavirus smacked up against the heartbreaking reality of 300,000 U.S. deaths. Relieved, proclaimed critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay after becoming one of the first to be inoculated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. I feel like healing is coming.
With a countdown of 3-2-1, workers at Ohio State University s Wexner Medical Center gave initial injections to applause.
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Experts say the success of the effort will depend on trust and patience.
Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer Jon Albrecht receives a shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Methodist Dallas Medical Center on Monday.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
“For those of us who have been in the trenches since the beginning, this is the light at the end of the tunnel,” said Dr. James Cutrell, an infectious-diseases expert and associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
But according to Cutrell, this week’s rollout, with hospitals across North Texas expected to get more than 50,000 doses, is “really just the beginning.”
Another set of scientists, this one more than five-dozen deep, is sounding the alarm over Snake River salmon and steelhead, saying if the imperiled fish are to be saved the four lower Snake River dams must go.
On Monday, 68 fisheries researchers from the Pacific Northwest released a letter penned to the regionâs congressional delegation, governors and fisheries policymakers methodically making the case for breaching the dams.
âThis scientific recommendation wasnât taken lightly. This is relying on a review of a large preponderance of information that a bunch of us analyzed over and over again over the years,â said Howard Schaller, a retired fisheries research biologist who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Nurse Annabelle Jimenez (left) congratulates colleague Sandra Lindsay after she was inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Jewish Medical Center in the Queens borough of New York on Monday. The Jamaican nurse who created history by becoming the first person in the United States to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is urging her countrymen to get the life-saving jab to shield them from the virus that has infected almost 73 million people globally and killed 1.6 million. Sandra Lindsay, who works in the Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish Medical Hospital in New York, joined in the applause shortly after the first dose was injected into her arm on Monday.