A health worker from New York was the first vaccinated against covid-19 in the US New York, Dec 14 2020 (AFP) – A health worker from New York became the first person to be vaccinated against covid-19 on Monday in a public ceremony in the United States, the country in the world that has suffered the most deaths from the pandemic. “The first vaccine was administered. Congratulations United States! Congratulations to the whole WORLD!”, celebrated the outgoing president of the United States, the Republican Donald Trump. Sandra Lindsay, a nurse in an intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Hospital, received the injection at 9:30 a.m. (2:30 p.m. GMT) in a live televised ceremony. The vaccine is to be administered first in the country to a priority population group: health workers and residents of nursing homes. Lindsay described the experience like any other vaccine. “I feel good and I feel relieved,” she said. “I hope this marks the beginning of the end of a very painful period in the history of our country. The nurse wanted to emphasize to the public that the vaccine is” safe. “” We are in a pandemic so we all have to do our part. part, “he added. The administration of the vaccine comes at a time of rising cases in the United States, when the country has already accumulated 299,000 deaths. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who participated virtually in the ceremony, told Lindsay that she hoped the vaccine would give her and other workers a sense of “safety.” “The process of getting the vaccine to critical mass is going to take months. So this is the light at the end of the tunnel, but it is a long tunnel, “said the governor, who reiterated the message that the population should continue to respect social distancing measures. The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine lots came out on Sunday the company’s plant in Michigan. The doses were shipped in boxes with dry ice, which will keep them at -70 ºC, the temperature necessary to preserve the compound. cat-an / gma —— ————————————————– —–
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