The biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history kicked off Monday as health workers rolled up their sleeves for shots to protect them from COVID-19 and start beating back the pandemic a day of optimism even as the nation s death toll closed in on 300,000.
“I feel hopeful today. Relieved,” critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay said after getting a shot in the arm 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 the first injections to applause.
And in suburban New Orleans, Steven Lee, an intensive care unit pharmacist at Ochsner Medical Center, summed up the moment as he got his own vaccination: “We can finally prevent the disease as opposed to treating it.”
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After becoming the first country to cross that threshold Monday, the U.S. is in store for a lot more pain. Experts fear the nation is heading inexorably toward the next milestone of surpassing the total of American fatalities in World War II – about 405,000 – even as vaccines come to distribution sites across the country.
A weeks-long surge in coronavirus transmission has led to an average of more than 210,000 new infections and nearly 2,500 deaths a day this month. Despite the positive news on the vaccine front, the U.S. is still battling overcrowded hospitals and shrinking ICU capacity.
But there is hope down the line. Health care workers across the United States received the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine Monday, a landmark step in the country s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ohio healthcare workers receive first doses of coronavirus vaccine By Steph Krane and Sia Nyorkor | December 14, 2020 at 5:40 AM EST - Updated December 14 at 8:10 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOIO) - Healthcare workers at The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center received Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine Monday morning.
The workers are among the first group of people in the state to get the vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration approved Saturday.
We are so excited to have administered the first round of #COVID19 vaccines at #OSUWexMed at 10:47 this morning. #InThisTogetherOhio#TogetherAsBuckeyespic.twitter.com/VAz3MlJ5EB The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (@OSUWexMed) December 14, 2020