Momentous event : HHS Secretary Alex Azar touts COVID-19 vaccine as a key to US herd immunity Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams were on hand Monday at George Washington University Hospital to witness doctors and nurses get the first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Five health care workers received initial doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, the first authorized in the country to combat COVID-19.
Azar called it a momentous event to develop a vaccine just over 11 months after the novel coronavirus first surfaced but said important work remains to protect Americans.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice became one of the first top elected officials in the country to receive a coronavirus shot on Monday evening, even though the state’s rollout is supposed to prioritize giving the highly sought-after vaccines to health care workers and people in long-term care centers.
The 69-year-old Republican governor said he wanted to demonstrate confidence in the vaccine’s safety.
“It’s as safe as can be,” Justice said at the statehouse room where he hosts regular news conferences. Wearing a mask, he received a jab in his right arm from a state pharmacy board official and promptly received an adhesive bandage and a sticker. Four other top state officials, including the health officer and head of the National Guard, next rolled up their sleeves and also received shots live on camera.
HHS Secretary urges Americans to not lay guard down ahead of vaccine administration ANI | Updated: Dec 15, 2020 16:15 IST
Washington [US], December 15 (ANI): Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Monday (local time) urged the public not to let their guard down against the COVID-19 disease.
According to Fox News, Azar and US Surgeon General Jerome Adams joined faculty and administrators of George Washington University Hospital when the first dose of the vaccine was administered. We re here today because of the extraordinary medical achievement our country has delivered this week through President Trump s Operation Warp Speed, HHS Secretary Azar said as quoted by Fox News adding, Today health care providers across America are going to work to administer vaccines to those most vulnerable and their coworkers.
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Queens, NY, nurse Sandra Lindsay is the among the first Americans to receive a coronavirus vaccine. (Image: Twitter/@NYGovCuomo)
A Black female ICU nurse in Queens became the first New Yorker and maybe even the first American to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Monday.
Sandra Lindsay, a nurse who works at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a press briefing Monday. Lindsay received an ovation after receiving the first two shots. The nurse will receive the second shot in 21 days.
Dr. Michelle Chester, a Black woman, administered the shot.
Lindsay told reporters she was hopeful the rollout of the vaccine would be “the beginning of the end of a very painful time in our history.”
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December 14, 2020
CHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice became one of the first top elected officials in the country to receive a coronavirus shot on Monday evening, even though the state’s rollout is supposed to prioritize giving the highly sought-after vaccines to health care workers and people in long-term care centers.
The 69-year-old Republican governor said he wanted to demonstrate confidence in the vaccine’s safety.
“It’s as safe as can be,” Justice said at the statehouse room where he hosts regular news conferences. Wearing a mask, he received a jab in his right arm from a state pharmacy board official and promptly received an adhesive bandage and a sticker. Four other top state officials, including the health officer and head of the National Guard, next rolled up their sleeves and also received shots live on camera.