Health care workers around the country rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort can 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.
And in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis personally opened a delivery door to the FedEx driver and signed for a package holding 975 precious frozen doses of vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech.
The weapon that will end the war : First coronavirus vaccine shots given in U.S.
Ben Guarino, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Josh Wood and Griff Witte, The Washington Post
Dec. 14, 2020
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NEW YORK With a quick jab to a nurse s left deltoid, America entered a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus on Monday.
The injection to Sandra Lindsay s arm at Long Island Jewish Medical Center made her the first American to receive the coronavirus vaccine outside a clinical trial. The small shot represented a giant leap in efforts to beat back the virus, a moonshot worth of hope amid a pandemic that has infected more than 16 million and killed more than 300,000 nationwide.
US nursing home residents account for nearly 40% of nation s death toll
Some families and nurses fear those in fragile health could be put at risk by the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and claim it has been rushed I will not be the test dummy, said one respondent to survey by National Association of Health Care Assistants
Others are keen for light at the end of the tunnel that could allow them to rejoin children and grandchildren
In on-going study of 44,000 people, U.S. Food and Drug Administration found vaccine safe and more than 90% effective, including the elderly
Experts say 70% of the population need to receive vaccine for it to be successful
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