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NEW JERSEY (WABC) The first COVID-19 vaccinations are being given in New Jersey Tuesday, with the first recipient a nurse who got the shot at University Hospital in Newark.
Maritza Beniquez has had a front-row seat to the devastation the coronavirus pandemic has wrought on communities of color in New Jersey, so the 56-year-old ER nurse jumped at the chance to take the vaccine that is being hailed as a potential turning point in a long and grueling battle against the deadly virus. I m happy that in another month and a half, I won t have to be afraid to go into a room anymore, she said. I won t have to be afraid to perform chest compressions or be present when they re intubating a patient. I don t want to be afraid anymore, and I don t want to have that risk of taking it home to my own family and my own friends.
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In front of an American flag, nurse Lillian Wirpsza administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Shylee Stewart, a labour and delivery nurse at George Washington University Hospital, in Washington, DC, on Dec 14, 2020. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS)
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NEWARK, New .Jersey: The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centres on Tuesday (Dec 15), inoculating thousands more healthcare workers in a mass immunisation expected to reach the general public in the coming months.
U.S. seeks to educate skeptics, keep up guard with vaccinations under way
While most vaccines take years to develop, the Pfizer vaccine arrived less than a year after the illness was traced to a market in Wuhan, China, in December of last year.
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Eduardo Muñoz / Reuters | 10:24 am, Dec. 15, 2020 ×
Nurse Lillian Wirpsza, right, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to emergency department Dr. Sean Chester, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 14, 2020. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS
NEWARK, N.J., Dec 15 (Reuters) The United States extended its rollout of the first authorized COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, inoculating healthcare workers with an eye toward persuading skeptical Americans to get their shots and contain a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 people.
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