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‘I was very honored to be asked to be the first;’ COVID-19 vaccines administered for first time on Staten Island Updated Dec 14, 2020; Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Islanders who have worked on the front lines throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic became some of the first Americans to receive a vaccine on Monday. Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) administered five doses of the Pfizer vaccine to its front-line staff members Dr. James Kenny; Joed Diaz, a patient care technician; Dr. Robert Wetz; ICU Nurse Rosamma Joseph; and Dr. Wassim Diab at its Ocean Breeze campus. “I was very honored to be asked to be the first one to take it,” Kenny, an associate chair of emergency medicine with the hospital, said. “This is a game changer. We’ve been anticipating for this for so long, and when I heard the vaccine was finally available I really think we’re going to win this.”

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