By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 15, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. AUSTIN, Texas – Within about three hours of the first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine arriving Monday morning at Joint Base San Antonio, Maj. Andrew Gausepohl became the base’s first military health care worker to receive the injection. “While I was first in line, while I was the first one to get it, it wasn’t for me. It was for my patients. For the patients that I can now see and not be concerned about spreading this disease,” said Gausepohl, who is the medical director of the 59th Medical Wing Family Emergency Center.
US Covid-19 vaccination: Nurse Sandra Lindsay receives first vaccine as death toll crosses 3 lakh mark
The process of shipping the first 2.9 million doses of vaccine began on Sunday, 11 months after the United States documented its first case of COVID. (Image Source: Twitter/@Reuters)
Updated: Dec 16, 2020, 01:00 AM IST
Sandra Lindsay, a New York City intensive care unit nurse on Monday became the first person in the United States to receive a coronavirus vaccine. Lindsay, who has treated some of the sickest COVID-19 patients for months said she felt healing is coming, as the death toll from Covid-19 reached the 300,000 mark.
Nurse Sandra Lindsay was the first person to receive the vaccine.
The vaccine was shipped to 145 US distribution sites.
A New York City intensive care unit nurse on Monday became the first person in the United States to receive a coronavirus vaccine, saying she felt healing is coming , as the nation s Covid-19 death toll crossed a staggering 300 000 lives lost.
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Sandra Lindsay, who has treated some of the sickest Covid-19 patients for months, was inoculated at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre in the New York City borough of Queens, an early epicentre of the country s coronavirus outbreak, receiving applause on a livestream with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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