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.
With a countdown of “3-2-1,” workers at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center gave the first injections to applause.
And in 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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New York nurse becomes first US citizen to receive COVID-19 vaccine as largest rollout in country s history begins Frontline nurse Sandra Lindsay was administered the shot developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, in Long Island Jewish Medical Center, in Queens on Monday. FP Staff December 14, 2020 22:48:15 IST Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, 14 December in the Queens borough of New York. AP
A critical care nurse became the first person to be administered a vaccine against COVID-19 on Monday as the biggest vaccination drive in American history got underway.
The US has started COVID-19 vaccinations this morning: after the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA on Friday.
Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, was vaccinated at earlier this morning.
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Sandra Lindsay, an ICU Nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, became the FIRST AMERICAN to get vaccinated in a non-trial setting.
The FDA granted the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine EUA in the US on Friday: making it the first COVID-19 vaccine to be authorized in the country. The vaccine was first authorized in the UK on December 2, with vaccination commencing there last week. Pfizer and BioNTech are now working on gathering other regulatory approvals around the globe: Singapore today became the first Asian country to give the jab the green light.