Hudson Valley COVID-19 vaccine: Hospital staff first, who's next
At MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, Dr. Daniela Stokes was on the verge of tears as she waited to get vaccinated Tuesday. The infectious disease doctor had lost her mother to COVID-19. At St. John's Riverside Hospital, Dr. Mark Silberman welcomed the quick stick in his left deltoid as the “beginning of the end” for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused more than 300,000 deaths across the U.S. and wrought “tremendous trauma” to the Yonkers hospital last spring. Stokes and Silberman were among the first medical staff across the Hudson Valley to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech CO...
Source: recordonline.com