In Nashville, Tennessee, nurses and doctors hoped to motivate others by rolling up their sleeves first. "There's a lot of misinformation going on and people are just scared," said Salomey Agyemang, a registered nurse at Southern Hills Medical Center. "I want to be one of the first people to do it so I can pass on that comfort to someone else so that they will also be encouraged to go for it." Tennessee has one of the highest daily case averages in the United States, so the vaccine could not have come at a more dire time. "This is a historic moment for all of us," said Prakash Patel, chief medical officer at Nashville's TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center. "I believe it's the beginning of the end of the pandemic. We've been struggling since March and this will make a big difference."