Juan Anchondo, a medical-surgical nurse at Las Palmas Medical Center, in El Paso, Texas, says he s ready for a Covid-19 vaccine and more than ready for the pandemic to be over.
Aaron E. Martinez/El Paso Times
Now that the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been cleared for emergency use, frontline health care workers across the U.S. are days away from being offered the shots. They couldn’t be arriving at a more crucial moment, with Covid-19 cases at their highest level since the pandemic began a year ago and many hospitals overwhelmed.
With a second vaccine, Moderna’s, expected to be approved shortly, government officials have projected that 20 million people will be inoculated by the end of December, with health care workers and residents of long term care facilities first in line.