2-MIN READ 1 Million Vaccinated as US Eyes Return to Normal Next Summer Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo) The news comes as the winter surge in cases rages across the country, where the virus has claimed more than 320,000 lives and is on course to be the third leading cause of death in the year. FOLLOW US ON: More than a million Americans have received the first dose of their Covid-19 vaccines, a senior official said Wednesday, as the US eyes a return to normal by next summer.