New York begins vaccinating health care workers
New York begins vaccinating health care workers POLITICO 12/16/2020 © AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool A nurse is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. New York, once the national epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, began its mass vaccination program on Monday, starting with health care workers. More than nine months after the state reported its first case of Covid-19, Sandra Lindsay, director of patient care service for critical care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, became the first New Yorker — and reportedly the first American — to receive the first shot...